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gundam470
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First things first: I have an HP laptop running XP Home
I installed Ubuntu yesterday on my external USB hard-drive. No major problems except I get an "error 21" message from GRUB that won't let me boot up when my external is shut off or disconnected.
My question is: is there a way to get my laptop to boot XP when my external is not plugged in??
If not, what's the cleanest way to uninstall Ubuntu (or just GRUB really)?
I installed Ubuntu yesterday on my external USB hard-drive. No major problems except I get an "error 21" message from GRUB that won't let me boot up when my external is shut off or disconnected.
My question is: is there a way to get my laptop to boot XP when my external is not plugged in??
If not, what's the cleanest way to uninstall Ubuntu (or just GRUB really)?
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Easy way to do this would be to re-install Linux. If you don't want to, I can find some docs on the hard way (moving the partition + data over).
It installs from a live cd so i can boot into the live cd and run the install. I already have two partitions set up on my external for Linux that installer made.
If i made a partition on my main hard disk, how would i get GRUB to install there? When I ran the install, it just told me GRUB would be installed to...i think...HD 0,0...or something.
The partitions the installer automatically makes are for a "/" and a "swap" on my external but it also wanted to make a "/media" partition on my main drive that i told it not to.