Uninstall issue

Do you want to remove Ubuntu, or do you want to fix the problem with being unable to connect to the Internet in your Ubuntu system?

No I want to remove it from my system as the computer that has ubuntu
installed on it does not have internet connected to it

On 10/12/11, marcobra (Marco Braida)
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> Your question #174029 on ubiquity in Ubuntu changed:
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If you installed Ubuntu alongside Windows (and not "inside" Windows with Wubi), then to uninstall Ubuntu:

(1) Offload any documents and other important files that are inside your Ubuntu system.

(2) Remove the partitions associated with your Ubuntu system, and (optionally, but you will probably want to do this) expand your Windows partition to take up the space they occupied. If you are running Windows Vista or Windows 7 (or a corresponding server version of Windows to either of these), you can perform both these actions in the Disk Management MMC Snap-In (right-click in My Computer / Computer and click Manage). If you are running an earlier version of Windows, you can remove the partitions with Disk Management (Start > Run > diskmgmt.msc), but you cannot resize your Windows partition that way. Either way, you can perform both actions in the GParted Partition Editor on the Ubuntu live CD. You should not attempt to modify the partition layout of the physical drive on which Ubuntu is installed *from* the installed system (that is, run GParted on the Ubuntu live CD, not in the installed system, even if you have GParted in the installed system). The partitions associated with your Ubuntu system are not of type NTFS, but instead are of type ext4 and linux-swap. Disk Management in Windows doesn't know about these partition types so it cannot tell you that, but it can distinguish them from the NTFS partitions that are most likely associated with your Windows system. GParted knows about these partition types and also knows about NTFS. If you remove the ext4 and linux-swap partitions from an Extended partition and the Extended partition is then empty, you should remove the Extended partition as well (which will then enable you to expand the Windows partition to take up the newly unpartitioned space).

(3) Reinstall the Windows boot loader to the Master Boot Record (as Ubuntu replaced it with its boot loader, GRUB2). The way you do this varies depending on what version of Windows you are running. In Windows Vista or Windows 7 (or a corresponding server version of Windows), use the technique detailed at http://kb.acronis.com/content/1507. For earlier versions of Windows, use the version-specific technique detailed at http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse91/suselinux-adminguide/html/ch07s05.html (but please note that *other* content on that site, besides for restoring your Windows boot loader, may be geared specifically toward users of SuSE rather than Ubuntu).