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So you're thinking, why would we want to help someone remove Debian? The thing is I'm a loyal Linux user, being that my laptop is 100% Linux, and I'm pretty ...
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    Uninstalling Debian Blocks Booting Windows

    So you're thinking, why would we want to help someone remove Debian? The thing is I'm a loyal Linux user, being that my laptop is 100% Linux, and I'm pretty sure you guys are open minded anyway. When I installed Debian, X would not work resulting in a (grr) text-only linux distro. Obviously this is not what I wanted. I've tried to get X working, but to no avail.

    Here's where the problem lies: I partitioned my hard drive to keep windows installed. I don't have a very big HDD at all (20 GB), so even though I shrunk the Debian part has much as I could (down to 1.5 GB) I still would really like all of that back for Windows. When I removed Debian, I had also removed GRUB, and while Windows was still intact, I could not boot into it as there was not bootloader. Since then, I re-installed Debian for the sole purpose of getting back into Windows (strange, eh?).

    Could anyone assist me in removing Debian?

    Thanks.

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    Boot up from Windows Installation CD, Select repair and execute fixmbr command. fixmbr will remove GRUB and Windows will boot on reboot.
    Boot up Windows and open Disk Management Tool. Delete all partitions marked as Unknown.
    It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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    Thanks, I'll try this right away.

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    Total success. Thanks.

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