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 Post subject: Easy Guide to Uninstall
PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:16 pm 
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Is there any?

I've searched the Forum but i cannot understand how to do it (maybe some pictures would help me :mrgreen: )

I've got an 1000HE, and first used the F9 option to have a clean instalation of Windows XP. Then i used the USB to install EEEbuntu 3.0 Standard. And so i had my dual boot system working fine. First i was amazed and thought i would never use anothe OS than linux, but then it become slower and slower and i don't know why. Maybe it's because of the automatic updates, i don't know, because sometimes showed up error messages like the url of the updates was wrong but i tried to fix it and it didn't.

Now i want to uninstall completely the eeebuntu and have my HDD, which have the partitions like it said in the easy install tutorial, without partitions so i can have it all in one, make a fresh clean install of XP and then, when the EB4 comes out try it.

How can i do that? I don't know almost anything about linux, please help me in a newbie way.


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 Post subject: Re: Easy Guide to Uninstall
PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 8:35 pm 
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well if you still have the live cd/usb of eeebuntu lying around, you can boot into that then use the gparted program to edit the partitions, you can delete the partition with eeebuntu and just keep have an empty partition for eb4 when it comes out or you can enlarge the xp partition to fill the entire hdd, one question, does your system use grub to boot into the partitions or windows?

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 Post subject: Easy Guide to Uninstall
PostPosted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 11:26 am 
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yes, i use the grub thing. i did exactly like the tutorial in the site said.

thanks in advance!


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 Post subject: Re: Easy Guide to Uninstall
PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:40 pm 
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will i have problems with the grub thing?


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:44 pm 
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harness wrote:
will i have problems with the grub thing?

Windows will overwrite the MBR upon installation, getting rid of grub. One reason why it is recommended to install windows first before linux when dual booting.

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:34 am 
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TRiPgod wrote:
harness wrote:
will i have problems with the grub thing?

Windows will overwrite the MBR upon installation, getting rid of grub. One reason why it is recommended to install windows first before linux when dual booting.


but does it overwrite the MBR, when i do the F9 restore thing? because if i was going to install windows the "old fashioned way", a fresh instal with cd and so, i know it would format the whole disk so there would be no problem. but, i will not do this, i will do the restore thing so would i get problem with the GRUB? well, maybe using the live usb of the new eeebuntu will solve this? or is it dangerous to do it with the eb 4 ( because i have the eb 3 installed)?


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