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Windows 8.1 resintalling restores original partitions ?

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  • Clean Install
  • Ubuntu
  • Windows 8
  • Partition
  • HP Laptop
  • Recovery Partition
  • Linux
  • Factory Restore
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April 18, 2014 1:06:49 PM

Hi guys, this week I've been trying to install Ubuntu on my Hp laptop (pre-installed with windows 8). I did it, but i didn't like it that much, and i found the installation process to be a little complicated for me. So now I want to uninstall Ubuntu and leave my laptop as it originally was, with the original partitions. My question is if i re-install windows from the option that's in the pc settings, will that restore the original partitions that were on my computer, and erase all other that were created during the Ubuntu installation ? BTW I don't mind re-installing windows because i don't have many files in it, and y have already moved the ones I care about to a pen drive. I hope my question has been clear enough, thanks in advance !

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April 18, 2014 1:15:20 PM

When you installed Ubuntu, did you kill all the partition's on the drive, including the unmarked hidden? If so, you wiped the MFG's reinstallation partition.
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April 18, 2014 1:34:57 PM

Freakboi_pa said:
When you installed Ubuntu, did you kill all the partition's on the drive, including the unmarked hidden? If so, you wiped the MFG's reinstallation partition.


Hi, thanks for answering so fast. I didn't erase any partition when installing Ubuntu. I selected the "Install alongside windows" option, and I just moved the bar to the right, to select how much disk space I wanted for windows, and how much for Ubuntu.
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April 18, 2014 1:36:39 PM

you may be able to go into the Windows "add Remove Programs" see if Ubuntu is listed, and uninstall it.
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April 18, 2014 1:52:41 PM

Freakboi_pa said:
you may be able to go into the Windows "add Remove Programs" see if Ubuntu is listed, and uninstall it.


It is not listed. Anyway, I can erase the ubuntu partition from the disk manager tool in windows. But along with that partition, 2 or 3 more of +- 300mb were created, and they have no name, or letter to identificate them. So now I have like 7 partitons, when I should only have 2 (i think) C, and Recovery. So I wanted to know if reinstalling windows, would solve this. I could post an image of what I see in the windows disk manager, but i dont know how to post images. Thanks for the help !
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April 18, 2014 2:00:18 PM

No, it probably will not fix all the partition issues. I haven't had to use the windows 8 recovery as of yet, but I am pretty sure it will not automatically redo partition tables.
If you do delete the Ubuntu partition, along with the others, you may need to edit the boot in msconfig and remove the Ubuntu as well.
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April 18, 2014 2:14:01 PM

Freakboi_pa said:
No, it probably will not fix all the partition issues. I haven't had to use the windows 8 recovery as of yet, but I am pretty sure it will not automatically redo partition tables.
If you do delete the Ubuntu partition, along with the others, you may need to edit the boot in msconfig and remove the Ubuntu as well.


I took a picture of what i see in disk manager: http://imageshack.com/a/img842/2553/nff1.jpg. In the boot in msconfig i only see windows, ubuntu is not showing up there.
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April 18, 2014 5:20:43 PM

Simply boot to your Ubuntu install disk or USB start gparted, the partition manager, and delete the Ubuntu partitions, there are 2, and extend windows back into the space created. No reinstall needed.
You must do this using a boot disk or USB boot. Windows doesn't see Linux and you can't delete a partition you are booted to.
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