Uninstall Ubuntu GO back single Vista

Hey guys, Me being very curious to try new things out, I went ahead and install Ubuntu on my 1520, and I really don't like it. It's not for me, I'd rather just stick with Vista. Now I did everything correct I beleive, Media direct and vista still work!!!

I want to take off Ubuntu, and let my system use Vista and auto boot into Vista without having Grub Menu asking me. How can I do this?? thanks

 

You need to get something to erase the partition that Linux is installed on (the live cd works perfectly for this). Then once that's done you need to insert your Windows cd (otherwise you'll get a grub error) and then use the recovery console to type fixmbr and don't worry about any of the warnings, then reboot.

 

I know exactly how you feel I too played a bit with Linux but as you put it...just not for me

From what I can remember (and this dates a while back!) in order to remove grub you need to rewrite your master boot record. The command is: [fdsisk /mbr] Now as I said I haven't done this in a while and there may be other alternatives but needless to say you'll most likely have to reinstall Vista all over again. This is the main reason I haven't played with linux recently its a real pain to get rid of grub.

Hopefully someone will come along with more knowledge

 

hehe never mind what I said...listen to notyou..sound much more easier ;-)

 

I went through exactly the same thing as you! I thought it would be cool to try out Linux on my spare partition then realized that it didn't meet my requirements and that it was also using up far too much space for my liking. First off, download a program called EasyBCD which you can use to repair the MBR (its quite simple, just have a look around the options, if you get stuck with it post and I'll see if I can help you out). Once the MBR is repaired you should no longer boot through GRUB but rather straight to Vista. Next you want to return the Ubuntu partition to NTFS or similar. To do this, boot up the live CD of the Linux OS and use the partition manager to format the Linux partition (ext3 if I remember correctly) back to NTFS. Save and reboot. You should now go straight back into Vista and have another partition available for whatever you wish to use it for!

Using EasyBCD is far simpler than booting from the Windows CD in my opinion.

 

I might be too late but still here's my reply
I did it for both ubuntu and kubuntu installs with grub handling boot.

I went in vista, right-clicked on 'my computer' and selected manage.
There I went in the hard drive section and simply deleted the linux partition (vista handles that by itself)
I extended my main partition (vista) to regain that now unused space.
Next reboot will not work, put in the live cd, go to repair windows, command line and type ''bootrec /fixmbr'' and ''bootrec /fix boot''
and that's all, next time you boot it all works fine.
takes 5 mins

 

Next time just download VistaBootPro and use it to make a backup of your Vista Bootloader (MBR). You can use it from XP or Vista, as long as you have a Vista Bootloader.

Or you can use a Vista DVD to repair the Bootloader.