Ubunutu trouble

[PeterStoba]

Recently ran xubuntu 8 from a 4gb usb drive, was ok, exited it, to go back to windows, and now i get the option to boot into xubuntu or xp on boot, with a countdown.

How do i remove xubuntu from there?

[wonderlust]

does this help?

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Windows-XP-3282/Removing-Ubuntu.htm

[PeterStoba]

Not really, as it was never installed

Was ran as a live cd

[wonderlust]

yeah but it sounds like it has over written the master boot record, FixMBR will fix it

[Lynx]

I told him to do that, aparently he did it but it didnt work. =/

[PeterStoba]

I will try again...

[wonderlust]

well may be worth a boot of a win98 disk (after backing up your important data) and doing an fdisk/mbr

[PeterStoba]

It placed a program in the add/remove list, i got rid of it and it took the entry from the boot.ini with it, sorted now!

Thanks for the help guys.

[monkey56657]

For it to be a real "live cd" I would advise booting directly to the CD rather than using the install via windows.

[wonderlust]

Is that something new for v8 I don't remember seeing the option in V7?

[PeterStoba]

I did Monkey.

Wonder, i installed it using windows to the usb drive, then restarted, it gave me the option to install, install in safe mode, run as live cd or quit.

This was xubuntu 8

[wonderlust]

ah ok, I have never had a live CD "interfere" with a Windows instalation