Hi All,
I recently installed Ubuntu by making a seperate partition on my machine, but it really isn't working right. So I repaired the windows boot launcher (using a repair disk) and I now want to completely remove linux and reclaim the partition as my own.
Assuming you just have Vista on C: partition and the ubuntu partition is immediately after, you should be able to go into Control Panel => Administrative Tools => Disk Management. Delete the ubuntu partition so it shows as unallocated space. Expand C: to include all of it.
If you have an image backup program I would do that first if you are inexperienced with disk partitioning. If Disk Management gives you a hard time you can use Partition Wizard freeware boot CD instead. Disk Management should do it for you in a few minutes. It's not complicated.
Awesome, thanks a ton! Now I have just one more question. How can I merge my C:/ and the partition without deleting any of my Windows Files? If this isn't possible, that's fine, I can use the new partition for something in particular.
The Vista disk management should be able to expand C: to take the entire disk non-destructively as long as the free space is "immediately to the right" of C: in the disk management Gui.
Also I would repeat the advice to use Partition Wizard. The old Partition Magic was discontinued before Vista. Vista NTFS partition is not exactly the same as XP. I used an image backup program that didn't know how to handle Vista partitions and it gave me headaches.
Partition Wizard works on Vista and W7 NTFS partitions and it's free. No need to experiment.