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ThanksI hope you made the Recovery Disks before installing Ubuntu as often times the Recovery partition is disabled by a clean install.
No, I failed in doing this. "Stupid is as stupid does."
See if you can make the disks now, or try runnng Recovery by tapping the key given at bootup for Recovery, or check manual for your model.
I'll check this out. Thanks for the suggestion.
The problem is that even if you can get Recovery to run the HD may need deep cleaning (by applying zeros using Diskpart or a Partition Manager like free Partition Wizard to wipe disk) to get rid of GRUB.
I have Partition Magic. I can try using it.
Your tech support will often send Recover Disk set for price of shipping, and may even send a clean copy DVD of Win7. The other option is to borrow or find a Win7 installer to install your version with key stickered to computer. This is actually the cleanest possible install as it eliminates the factory bloatware which is corrupting in itself.
Great suggestion.
With the DVD or Recov disks, then you can Wipe the HD with Partition Wizard CD first, or boot DVD Command Line (press Shift F10 at bootup) to run DISKPART Clean All command before installing Win7. I can only do this if I have a Windows 7 Recovery disk.