So... have no fear I don't mean I'm uninstalling linux from my main system (I <3 linux) but I do have a computer that is reaching the end of it's days and I can use all the gigs I can get out of it so I would like to uninstall linux from it and merge the partitions. Now oddly enough, I've installed a lot of Linux distros (everything from Slackware to Gentoo) but I am pretty clueless as to how I would go about uninstalling them. Now for a quit overview of things... so the system is running Ubuntu and Windows XP. I have 3 partitions with Linux (swap, root, and another for files), 2 for Windows, and I load this all up with GRUB. Now here is my main concern... I don't want to just wipe the linux partitions because I'm worried about how GRUB will react to it, last thing I want is to lose Windows. So how do I go about cleanly uninstalling Linux and being able to boot Windows?

Umm ... why bother 'uninstalling'? Use any live CD or install-CD and delete
the partitions you don't want :}


Cheers,
Tink

You can get rid of the grub boot loader and restore the original Windows boot loader with the following command in a Windows command window.
Boot Windows. Run a command window. Enter the fdisk /mbr command. Reboot.

More information can be found here.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true

Once the MBR is restored it will only boot Windows. You can then use the Windows disk administrator to change the Linux partitions to Windows partitions.