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Ubuntu OS Uninstaller

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September 26, 2014 7:44:53 PM

I previously had Ubuntu installed on my secondary drive, while my windows 8 is on my primary. I had no problems booting into windows from grub, but if I tried to boot into Ubuntu or a trashed linux mint, it wouldn't go anywhere.

Decided to try OS-Uninstaller hearing that it fixes boot issues and it found ubuntu and took it off no problem saying it fixed all boot issues....Until I rebooted and tells me that there's no operating system. If I point it back towards where Ubuntu was I'm left with a command line grub.

I currently don't have an installation disk, I think. I can't seem to access either my C drive or D drive from this live usb disk; I might have the ISO on one of my drives. So with that said, I'm stuck with only this USB live disk. What do I do?

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a b * Windows 8
September 26, 2014 8:53:07 PM

If I understand correctly, you have not removed the Ubuntu HDD? why not?.. that may allow you to boot Windows 8...
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September 26, 2014 9:13:33 PM

It's my Data Drive. I have windows installed to one drive and all the programs and everything else to the D drive. Knowing there are issues installing ubuntu and windows side by side, and me knowing I wouldn't keep it forever, I didn't want it on my SSD so I installed Ubuntu to my D drive.

Now after using the OS-Uninstaller and Boot-repair, it tells me that there is no OS on what I'm assuming is the C drive and when I try and boot from the D drive it gives me a broken grub command line.
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September 26, 2014 9:49:55 PM

You could be having issues with UEFI if thats what you are using. Are you just wanting to get the data inside it? If you want an easy out you can create a bootable Linux distribution and grab the data off that, then just format the drive.

If you want to use it again as a bootable drive there is some thing you can try, but you best bet, chances are without further information, is to just grab the data, and just do a fresh install.
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September 26, 2014 9:55:47 PM

My Mobo works in both UEFI + Legacy, or just UEFI. I want to get back to windows as my main OS. This software so far is garbage and it ruined my drives.

Reasons like this are why I put all my data on secondary drives because 8 times out of 10, anything linux related will fuck up anything windows. As you can see here, all I wanted to do was uninstall ubuntu and have JUST WINDOWS. Everything worked 100% FINE before this. As soon as I uninstall ubuntu there goes my windows.

Looks like I have to find a way to download another windows 8 ISO and somehow burn it using this live disk as my OS so to say. Shit like this is why linux won't be anything serious anytime soon, and same probably goes for SteamOS. I mean I get it, ubuntu is open source and free and look at us! Great, but you'd think you could make it play nicer with the other shit around it.
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September 26, 2014 10:01:14 PM

I personally have a bias against that as im triple booted Arch, Ubuntu and Windows 8 :)  , if you go into BIOS and under boot options, can you boot directly to windows?
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September 26, 2014 10:21:12 PM

Yes and no, it trys to boot, but just hangs with the spinning icon. If I reboot and try enough times it takes me to repair but I have limited options, and bootrec only works half the commands.
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September 26, 2014 11:39:44 PM

You can dual boot, but if you ever decide you want to remove anything but windows, windows breaks.

So no worries, close the thread. I've accepted that Linux isn't ready for desktops outside servers and security. Maybe Lord Gates will forgive me
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September 27, 2014 3:14:07 PM

Personally I think if you try to be more open about using different OS's and how they would you should be fine :)  Ive switch between Fedora, openSuSe, Ubuntu, Arch, Mint, Madriva, and I've had no problems, as a boot manager I would recommend trying rEFInd, if anything it might be causing an issue with your EFI partition for windows.

Best of luck to you.
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a b * Windows 8
September 27, 2014 7:26:48 PM

You did not answer my question but if I understand correctly you have tried to boot Windows 8 with the Ubuntu HD removed from the computer?... If so, and cant boot Windows 8, you have to run the Boot Repair... you will need a Windows 8 installer on DVD or USB... the Hiren's Boot CD may have some tool to repair the Win 8 bootloader.

As it apperas, you installed Ubuntu on the second HDD without removing the Windows HDD, this created the dual boot from Ubuntu (grub) and when you removed Ubuntu it left Windows 8 unbootable.

Ubuntu runs well with Windows and there is always a way to deal with the dual boot.. but to prevent such issues, you can install Ubuntu on another HDD with the Windows 8 HDD removed from the computer. And to run them on dual boot, you can use something like EasyBCD on Windows to create the dual boot.. this way you don't allow Ubuntu ruining the Windows bootloader.. and when getting rid of Ubuntu, it's better to format the partition it's on, and later edit the Windows bootloader from EasyBCD.
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