Dear users,
I have tried The procedure, which can guarantee You, that YOu will be
able to boot to Windows Xp if YOu will remove Linux operating system
according to my directions.
If You will not be able to boot to Windows XP, You are having two
possibility.
1. Remove partitions, which are used by Ubuntu Karmic, I Am strongly
recommending You to rather use stable live CD for removing and modifiing The
partitions, because kernel of development releases can be unstable. Use
gparted only in Live CD mode while YOu will boot from this live CD.
Or You would try to manually edit Grub configuration file and specifi to
boot WIndows XP. try to please a sighted person, if there is item for
starting Windows XP. If no, installation program for Karmic did not add The
Grub configuration for starting Windows XP. Try to look at The partitions,
if You did not removed NTFS partition.
So how to remove Linux safely and how to recover Windows SXP to be bootable
again?
Boot from a stable Ubuntu live CD, I Am strongly recommending You to boot
from Ubuntu Jaunty official release.
Use gparted to remove Linux based partitions. Before removing Linux svap,
disable it by using F10 function key and right arrow key to get to The
partition sub menu. And press down arrow key until YOu will hear svap off.
This will disable svap file. Because Linux kernel will probably use Your
svap file eventhough You will boot from A live CD. Linux kernel is loving
The svap file very much, and if it will see this partition, kernel will
start to use it.
When You will have svap file off, You can remove Linux svap, and extended
partition. You can also remove EXT4 partition if You will experiment with
Ubuntu Karmic, EXT3 file system will be used while using older Ubuntu
releases.
When you will have removed all Linux partitions, restart Your computer with
Ubuntu live CD on YOur CD boot drive. Start gparted again and when cursor
will be on a NTFS partition, explore The Gparted menus to find The flags sub
menu. Enable The boot flag in The dialog box. Your NTFS partition must be
bootable, so The boot flag must be turned on.
Apply the changes and restart Your computer without Ubuntu live CD. I found
out, that by using boot flag, The boot sector will be working fine and Your
WIndows XP will very probably start fine without problems.
There is also other procedure, so user have to use The console and before
triing to install other operating system, user can backup several sectors of
his hard drive to The floppy drive or to The USB disk. I can explain both
procedures for this. I Am not author of those procedures. One professional
from GRML E-mail conference described this procedure for backing up sectors
to USE or to A floppy drive. I will try to send A direct link to his
article, eventhough The whole article is focused on installing GRML, The
procedure for backing up and restoring from this backup is included.
I tried The procedure for recovering Windows XP to The boot state after
removing Linux distro. I tried this procedure for Opensuse, but i think,
that boot flags will be working fine, because i used Gparted from Ubuntu to
set The NTFS boot flag TO The on state.
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