How to unistall and delete Ubuntu installed using Wubi

Asked by Random774

I was told a while back to get a Linux based OS and I just got around to it. Ubuntu, for the 15 minutes that it functioned, was great! Then I got a message about a crash, though before I could read it the OS, well, crashed. Now I can't use my Ubuntu OS to any extent. Everytime I use it it freezes after I enter my name and password. If I don't enter them and select "options' in the lower left hand corner, it says that the "greeter" is not working, and goes into an endless loop of check it and telling me this. WHen I installed Ubuntu I wasn't sure what I was doing, and selected demo and full installation, and it did the aouto partitioning of my hard drive. Now I can't find Ubuntu anywhere in my computer exept on the screen that allows me to choose one of five things (abriviated for ease of my typing) "Ubuntu", "Ubuntu Recovery", "Ubuntu Test", "Vista Loader", or "Vista Loader". The Vista operations still work fine, but I would very much like to delete the malfuntioning Ubuntu OS, so that I can at lease regain that memory space to use in a proper installation of either Ubuntu or another Linux OS. Any suggestions oon how to do this?

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zvacet (ivicakolic) said :
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First read http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p18.html#MbrFix.exe and when you do that use live Ubuntu cd or Gparted live CD wutch you can download from http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ and with it delete all Ubuntu partitions.or maybe you want to try solve your problems with Ubuntu.

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Best Tom (tom6) said :
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Hi :)

Do you still have an Ubuntu Cd and can you boot up from it into a LiveCd session?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
Note that figure 3 might help you get rid of the Ubuntu partitions but if you installed Ubuntu inside Windows then that would explain why you are having troubles and this guide, section4 parts 1 & 2 might help you uninstall it
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Random774 (crinaldi77) said :
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Thanks Tom, that solved my question.

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Tom (tom6) said :
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Brilliant, nicely done :))

The best way to install Ubuntu is from the LiveCd session
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
and then this guide helps
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
Ubuntu really needs a partition of about 15Gb to be comfortable. It can then happily use the data that's inside the Windows side so i would keep Ubuntu fairly small and keep the data mostly in Windows.

To find out how large a swap partition you need just get to a command-line
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal#Starting%20a%20Terminal
and type in

free -m

the 1st number shows how much ram you have and then the swap partition should be between 2 time ram but if that's quite a lot then it could be as little as equal to ram (a little bit more to be safe)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)