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Installed 10.04 to flash drive.. ran trial and am stuck in ubuntu..HELP PLEASE

Asked by seth parvin

I downloaded ubuntu 10.04 to a flash drive, like suggested, but when i opened it up to run a trial on a friends pc, it wont let me reboot to back to windows. I cannot figure this out to save my life. Please help.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Access the BIOS and tell it to boot the internal drive first

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seth parvin (seth-parvin) said : 		#2

i did, even without the flash drive installed it still thinks it is. it boots me to ubuntu's trial page
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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Sounds like you may have broken someting. Boot to the Ubuntu and run:

sudo fdisk -l

What is output?

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#4

What did you do on your friend's PC ?
Option "Try without install" is not supposed to modify PC after shutdown, except you did specific actions.

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