you guys are making things complicated....if you have XP, go to Settings>Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs and remove Ubuntu from there and if you need to re install, look for the installer that youve downloaded...

@ baronobeefdip

I normally don't take time to go around reading in an effort to help someone here, but count yourself lucky. I went to the site you downloaded those recovery discs from and did some reading in the comments section, there's only about 3 million posts. Look at the quotes below from someone asking about the recovery CD and the reply from those who made it.


I fired up a Windows 7 Ultimate installation of mine and proceeded to make this disc, below is what Windows says:
I'm on dialup at my current location, and cannot download this recovery CD, good thing I can just create it.
I tried it and it is very nice, automatic, and wanted to repair my MBR as I use a proprietary boot manager.
It has a boot.wim image file, using this utility I mounted it and navigated to the Windows/system32 directory where lies the bootsect.exe that it uses to repair MBR automatically.

What I've deduced:
Go ahead and delete all Ubuntu partitions through Window disk management, then boot up your Windows 7 recovery disc (make sure to have the right one, there is a 32 bit and 64 bit version), let it do it's scan looking for a Windows installation, after finding it, it should offer to repair Windows boot manager by adding an entry, which I'm very confident based on all the reading is precisely what you want.

@ ciao303:

I remember stumbling on some information in the past regarding installing some flavors of Linux through Windows, I think Ubuntu is one that can be installed this way. But if Ubuntu was not installed through Windows, rather installed by booting the CD directly, it will not be in Windows Add/Remove applet.

That would be OK for a Wubi installation, but not for a dual-boot.

well my first attempt on doing this repair would be using the startup repair tool in the windows 7 recovery disk i downloaded from the link i posted

i don't think theres any need for commands in a text based interface environment a gui method seems alot simpler for someone who hasn't done anything like this before

this seems simple enough though but will it make any difference that its a 32 bit version being used not a 64 bit when i plan on using this method on a 64 bit os machine

how can i tell wether its 64 or 32 bit

If you're asking about the Operating system you have, click on start menu icon, right click on "Computer" and select "Properties". In the window that appears look under "System", "System type". If you're asking about the CD you downloaded, click on the link you provided, in the pink square are two links, one for Vista and one for Windows 7, click on Windows 7, scroll down half a page and ask yourself which one you clicked on.
Now...
When I tested it, it wanted to add an entry. I stopped there as I didn't want to go through the trouble of reloading my boot manager. I'm not entirely sure if it was going to change my MBR or add the data partition I set to be visible along with Windows to the Windows boot menu. So it is possible that recovering MBR using this disc must be done from command prompt. But according to what I gathered from the reading, it's automatic and put a lot of smiles on a lot of faces.

If you are comfortable you can nuke the partitions with fdisk.

If you can download gparted at a friends with broadband , a Puppy Linux disk which has gparted and is only 104 mb {still too big for dial up} , Ultimate Boot Disk etc.
It is well worth having the Puppy disk for saving data etc, I use it 90% of the time as my main os. Do niot use anything newer than 431.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...adme-files.htm

Take a windows disk ,win 2000 or XP whatever and boot the machine and tell it to go to repair , type in fix mbr, pull out the disk and reboot.

Instructions for WIN 7 http://windowslive.com/Connect/Post/...51E3DB-2123982

Use startup repair