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    Ubuntu

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by chayann1, Jul 10, 2011.

  1. chayann1

    chayann1 Newbie

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    My brother and his wife recently bought a laptop from a friend in desperate need of cash (Dell lattitude D630 and no, the laptop wasn't stolen :) ). when my brother tried to boot it, he found a different os installed - ubuntu. He never received any discs from his friend, and wants to get ubuntu off his laptop and go back to vista that was originally installed. How can he do it, with no discs?
     
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    chayann1 Newbie

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    We've already tried to download EAsyBCD, however, for some reason, ubuntu won't let us open the file. Any ideas?
     
    chayann1, Jul 10, 2011
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  3. Coke

    Coke Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ubuntu isn't immediately user friendly to Windows users. You'd have to elaborate on why it doesn't open or what it does when you try to use EasyBCD.

    Personally, I have no idea what easyBCD is or how to use it, I've always used Grub/Burg as my bootloader.
     
    Coke, Jul 11, 2011
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    Rodster Merica

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    EasyBCD is the Windows bootloader editor. Ubuntu won't recognize it. You would have to go into Windows and install EasyBCD. Then you can delete the partition and rewrite the Windows bootloader.

    But first what version of Ubuntu are you running because you can uninstall Ubuntu by itself?
     
    Rodster, Jul 11, 2011
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  5. Full-English

    Full-English Notebook Deity

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    Is Vista even still on there that you know of?
     
    Full-English, Jul 11, 2011
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    Primes Notebook Deity

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    If the laptop has the sticker on it with a vista key, all you need to do is borrow a vista install cd from someone and you can use your key (usually as long as its the same version of windows, ie: home, pro, etc..)

    you could try tapping the down arrow as your booting the laptop and see if the grub boot menu comes up. if your lucky you might see vista as an option and that means vista is still installed. then it would be a matter of removing ubuntu and restoring the windows boot loader.
     
    Primes, Jul 12, 2011
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    linuxwanabe Notebook Evangelist

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    First of all, it isn't worth reinstalling Vista and I suspect that your friend probably migrated to Ubuntu because of woes with an old install of Vista on aging hardware. Now, you probably have a legit COA sticker on the bottom. Maybe you can order a replacement Vista backup disk from Dell. Perhaps you could even spend a $100 on a full version of Windows 7? Or, you can download the latest distro and migrate to Linux, which is probably easier and cheaper.
     
    linuxwanabe, Jul 14, 2011
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    AESdecryption Notebook Evangelist

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    EasyBCD is a Microsoft Windows application, it doesn't run on linux (the program wasn't originally written for Ubuntu). You have 2 options:

    Option 1:
    -Accept your faith and get used to Ubuntu, update you kernel and get clamtk.

    Option 2:
    -Assuming you know how to boot into a CD/DVD during startup, you get a XP or Windows 7 disc from your friends to install the OS.
     
    AESdecryption, Aug 12, 2011
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