Hey all,
I have Ubuntu on my laptop dual booting w/ Vista, but I never use it anymoe so I was hoping to get rid of it and just use my Vista partition.
Every single guide I see tells me that I need a vista installation CD and to run bootrec.exe to restore my MBR to Vista.
The Vista bootloader is still there, but Grub loads first. So when my computer boots up, it goes into GRUB and then I select windows which takes me to the Windows boot loader (I have 2 entries b/c I installed Windows 7 and then uninstalled it, but never removed it from the list).
so I was hoping that there was something I could do that would NOT involve CD's or DVD's of ANY kind. (although I have an ubuntu live CD, and that is the only CD I am able to use).
so just that I am clear, I do not have the vista recovery or the vista install cd to use bootrec.exe off of.
I want to uninstall the grub, and just use Vista's default boot loader.
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1 Rosenberg // Apr 30, 2009
they tell you to do this so you can recover your hdd space that ubuntu is taking up. Linux runs on a different file system (usally ext3) than windows so you can not read or write to that section of the hard drive till you reformat if with windows super speedy still using a registry NTFS system.
otherwise if you don't care about the lost space, you need to edit your MBR.
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