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Have installed kubuntu on an external drive. (installed from a Magazine CD)How do I perform a complete removal of the installation, including grub? (installation works fine)

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François Tissandier (baloo) said : 		#1

Is grub on the external hard drive too?

If you just want to completely clean this external HD, just use a liveCD to delete the partitions.
To remove Grub, I don't know in fact, anyway it won't do anything if there are no partitions. So no big deal, the installation of grub in the MBR is just to point to a partition I guess, there is nothing to uninstall.

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kar (krokke) said : 		#2

Thanks for the answer.
I do not know where the GRUB sits, but stage #1 is probably on the MBR of the primary OS drive.
Stage #2 may be on the external drive.
The install CD does not have options for removal.
The partition can be deleted via the windows disk hadler tool, but this will not remove GRUB from the MBR.
What I really should like to do is partition the external drive and keep kubuntu on one partition.
I shoukd like to edit GRUB so as to start Windows as default.
This is my first experiment with a linux system and so far it is very interesting. My main work is done in Windows
so I would like to keep that as default.

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#3

Hi !

this should help you modifying your grub preferences

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto/ChangeDefaultOS

using gparted from a liveCD should allow you to reduce the partition size.

tell me if you need more detailed instructions

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