Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 22 May 2006 01:18 pm, John Rye wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2006 10:35:49 -0700
>
> "SigSolutions, Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'll be a little more succinct ..
> >
> > 1) load mandriva
> >
> > 2) boot mandriva
> >
> > 3) HARD disk spins and spins and spins .. (during this time you can do
> > things but the disc spins and spins and spins .. )
> >
> > I had expected problems with the wireless myself and there are lots of
> > posts about it and can be worked through .. The HD problem could
> > probably be worked through with enough work.
> >
> > I just didn't have time to tweak a lot of bits .. you will note that
> > my original post, and even those after (except for the type bit) did
> > not and does not put down Linux or Mandriva. (well probably the
> > 'world works on .. ')
> >
> > I asked a question on how to uninstall mandriva .. seemed pretty
> > simple to me .. but there you go
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > On 5/22/06, Eric Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Monday 22 May 2006 11:59, SigSolutions, Inc. wrote:
> > > > Load mandriva and the disk spins and spins and spins .. the wireless
> > >
> > > This line must be inaccurate or misleading. If it just spins and spins
> > > how do you know the wireless doesn't work? It must have stopped
> > > spinning at some point and installed Mandriva. Right?
> > >
> > > Wireless stuff can be a problem. The problem is simply that the
> > > manufacturers don't create drivers for linux. You can try Ndiswrapper
> > > as an alternative. If you've been using Windows for awhile drivers were
> > > a problem for windows hardware also. They have whole websites just to
> > > help users find drivers.
> > >
> > > Although I haven't had problems with XP I did have problems with
> > > hardware with earlier versions of windows even though the docs said it
> > > was supposed to work.
>
> Ok, stepping in very late here, at no point have you told us which
> version of Mandriva you installed, you've told us neither your
> hardware configuration nor where you obtained the installation media.
>
> However. I think you also want to recover the hard disk space which was
> assigned to Linux by the install, am I correct?
>
> There are _at least_ 3 methods to do this.
>
> Method 1: Obtain Partition Magic or some similar hard disk partition
> manager. Use that utility to remove the Linux partitions and then
> resize your Windows to take up the entire disk space.
>
> Method 2: Using the partition manager above change all the linux
> assigned partitions to NTFS or what ever, and format them. This may
> give you a number of different drives: EG "D" "E" "F" etc AND shift and
> CDroms you have as well.
>
> Method 3: Backup all data files from XP and reinstall
>
> John
----cj's reply----
Dude, the only way i uninstall mandriva is like the others said. But instead of using 3rd party partitioning software, i use FDISK (Not recommended because FDISK cant really access some of hte linux swap partitions, leaving a lot of unaccessable space which cant be used). So i would recommend either using partition majic or some 3rd party partitioning program (like a partitioning program that came with your hard drive if you bought and installed a hard drive.)
But pretty much, the only way to uninstall mandriva is to either take out the mandriva partition or install a different linux version (a different linux version will take out the linux partitions and rewrite the hard drive with its own..how ever, some may have mandriva partition capabilities and will give you the option of installing that linux version on the mandriva partition)
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Or if you have no windows installed on the laptop and want to put it back,
just do a clean install of windows and reformat the drive with the windows xp
install or is it setup. HTH
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