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Unistalling Extra ubuntu installed in windows

Asked by Just5cents

First off I love ubuntu! I think the new version is great how it can be installed inside windows. So anyway I was installing it inside my girlfriends computer (she wanted it too) but after I installed it I noticed that the video card wasnt reconigzing (its an nvidia and she has an hp laptop) so i noticed she has a 64bit computer. So no thinking through i downloaded the 64 bit version. Now heres where the problems started. I went into unistall programs and unistalled ubunto. then i proceeded to install the 64 bit ubuntu, but when i rebooted there are now two copies of ubunto. did i miss something or did i go about it wrong?

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Jonas Jabs (jonas-flinux) said : 		#1

actually i dont understand your "problem". i mean does the 64bit version work?
by the way i dont think that its a CPU problem but a driver problem so you should( on the 32bit or 64bit no matter) try to install the driver "nvidia-glx-new" per synaptic.

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Just5cents (just5cents) said : 		#2

Sorry about that. What im asking is how do I remove one installation so that when my computer boots up theres only Vista and one ubuntu not two copies showing up. And after Reading around I found out about the driver thanks though! :) Now I just need to unistall the old 32 bit install. I thought I did but apparently its still showing up.

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Jonas Jabs (jonas-flinux) said : 		#3

do you use the standard bootloader from windows?
if yes, you could fix the problem per editing the boot.ini.
go to system settings, advanced, now under system start, klick on "edit"
now in the boot.ini you see two main parts: boot loader and operating systems
under [operating systems] you see the boot menu list is one boot entry per line
logically i would suggest( see i did not verify) you simply delete the line which stands for the 32bit ubuntu.
please before editing make a backup of the original.
...and good luck!
Jonas

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Jonas Jabs (jonas-flinux) said : 		#4

nah important: what i said only works on XP
under Vista you use BCDEDIT.exe

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