How to uninstall ubuntu

jilloper · 09-01-2007, 01:13 PM

i want to uninstall ubuntu and wipe the hard drive but i dont know how to do this please help me

mmmmtmmmm · 09-01-2007, 01:29 PM

If you will be replacing it with windows, the windows installation process will wipe it off automatically. If you are going to be doing a different Linux installation, you can just use fdisk to wipe your partition tables, create new partitions, and then reformat with mke2fs...

--mmmmtmmmm

jilloper · 09-01-2007, 01:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mmmmtmmmm

If you will be replacing it with windows, the windows installation process will wipe it off automatically. If you are going to be doing a different Linux installation, you can just use fdisk to wipe your partition tables, create new partitions, and then reformat with mke2fs...

--mmmmtmmmm

how do i do the f disk thing

Fusi · 09-01-2007, 03:08 PM

if you want to install another linux distribution, just start its installer and choose the partition where ubuntu is installed as root (/) partition. it will be reformatted and overwritten automatically in most cases

pixellany · 09-01-2007, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by jilloper

how do i do the f disk thing

To use fdisk to remove all partitions, I think you need to be running from a live CD...eg your install CD (or from another drive)

At a command prompt (eg in a terminal):
fdisk -l ....to see your partitions
fdisk /dev/sda .....to change the partitions on sda

If you really want to wipe the disk, then you can do that directly using something like DBAN:
http://dban.sourceforge.net/
(no need to remove anything first)

AwesomeMachine · 09-02-2007, 04:15 PM

Boot with a live CD, like knoppix, and use dd:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4k conv=notrunc,noerror