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When I try to enter ubuntu, it gets stuck on the GRUB loader menu. I have tried to install xp using a cd but the system does not detect the cd or the cd drive. I have tried to use gparted and xp on a usb. The computer boots from a usb but none of them work since it says "No ubuntu no configuration file found"

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Can you add more detail? What did you mean when you said "I have tried to use gparted and xp on a usb" ? – Mahesh Sep 2 '12 at 15:01
Neither Ubuntu nor GRUB can stop your computer from booting from a CD; the factors that affect that are your BIOS settings, your hardware, whether or not the CD was properly created, and whether or not the CD is damaged. If you have a Windows ISO image like the ones provided with Microsoft, make sure you're burning it correctly. As for making a USB flash drive, a Windows ISO image cannot be written to a flash drive the same way as an Ubuntu ISO image. Please expand your question to explain exactly what you've done. This might turn out to be off-topic for Ask Ubuntu, but we can't be sure yet. – Eliah Kagan Sep 2 '12 at 15:02

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Best way is format your hard drive to NTFS. GRUB is usually very stuck in your system. I had same problem too.

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If GRUB2 is installed to the Master Boot Record, formatting partitions as NTFS or removing partitions and creating new ones will not help, as that does not affect the Master Boot Record. So this answer is not correct; what you're suggesting won't get rid of GRUB (though it will keep it from working by getting rid of part of it, that won't actually make anything else work any better). GRUB doesn't keep the computer from booting to a CD or USB flash drive, so it doesn't matter that it's installed--the Windows installer will overwrite it with the Windows boot loader during installation. – Eliah Kagan Sep 2 '12 at 15:05

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