add uninstall linux option

[Nadav]

If someone with a little experience with Linux, he may want to uninstall it. he could remove the partitions of Linux and there for the Grub stop to work, and he blame the linux that destroy the windows, and after that. he will format the whole hard disk to bring windows back... (It happen to my friend).

There for to prevent that, I suggest that the installation of Linux will copy and save the boot loader of windows, and will added option to remove linux and restore the original windows boot loader.

It will make Linux more friendly if It will be easy to remove as to install.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

I think ubiquity would probably be the place to handle the initial save of the MBR is this were to be implemented. I'm not sure about the restoration: that might need another tool somewhere (perhaps on the LiveCD).

[Nadav (nadavvin)]

I meant only the boot loader part of MBR, since partition table can change and it not wise to change it.

but something which perform the uninstallation need to remove the Linux partitions.

[TerryG (tgalati4)]

Triaged to Confirmed since it's been placed in Wishlist. Although a restore would be helpful, it would require a lot of disk space and take a lot of time. An impatient Windows user would have hit control-alt-delete long before any viable fix could be attempted.

[Nadav (nadavvin)]

It's shouldn't need take much time to restore the boot loader part of MBR. It have very small size.

You can also add big warning for the user for no touching in the computer.

What if will be electricity break?

You can also add comment that the Ubuntu CD can continue restore if the computer stop in the middle.

Therefore the Ubuntu CD should check in the beginning if there is something to restore and suggest this option.

[TerryG (tgalati4)]

Restoring the MBR is the easy part. It's restoring an overwritten Windows installation that's difficult.

[Nadav (nadavvin)]

Why to backup the whole windows and not just keep it?

I only refer to the common situation that the common user want to keep is windows and to install Linux also.
If the user regret all the need to do is to restor the MBR and format the Linux partitions or to delete them and extending the Windows partition

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

Dear all,
Here are 2 little tools that would solve this bug if they were pre-installed in the live-CD:
1) https://launchpad.net/clean-ubiquity : automatic MBR (and partition tables) backup during Ubuntu installation.
2) https://launchpad.net/os-uninstaller : uninstalls any OS in 1 click !

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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