Lucas, you can remove Linux from your computer right from within Linux.
It's easy. I did it last weekend on a computer that is going to my young
grandchildren.
First, make sure you have a boot disk for Windows and test it before you
do anything. Then load Linus and launch DiskDrake (you can do this from
a console as root or super user). On the graphic that comes up, you
click on the partitions you want to get rid of, then tell it to remove
or delete them. (I'm going from memory.) It'll give you warnings and
warn of dire consequences. Be absolutely sure that you're not deleting
your Windows partition. Then let DiskDrake do its thing. Put your
Windows boot disk in drive A and exit to reboot. After the computer
boots from Drive A, at a DOS prompt run FDISK /MBR if you use LILO or
GRUB. That will get rid of the Linux boot manager. Remove the floppy and
reboot. You will have to FDISK and FORMAT your now-empty second drive.
Note that I don't know how this works with Windows 2000. I *think* FDISK
/MBR will work for anything, but I could be wrong and it might disable
the boot manager for W2K/Win 98. So you should look into that before you
do this. FDISK /MBR gets rid of LILO and GRUB, if that's what you use.
If you use something else, you can continue using it. I assume you have
boot disks that can get you into your operating systems in case anything
goes wrong.
FDISK will not delete a non-DOS partition.
--Judy Miner
