Several months ago my Windows 7 installation crashed and burned on me. I couldn't even get it to boot over to the "repair" option to try to restore factory defaults. I don't know what was wrong with it, but I had been curious about Ubuntu/Linux for some time and wanted to give it a shot.
I've tried giving Ubuntu 14.10 a go of it since December 2014, but it's just gotten to the point where it is too limiting. I don't understand most of the instructions people give me (i.e. I have no clue what a 'chroot' is or any of the jargon) and I want to scrap it and go back to Windows.
I was just checking things out and when I first boot up the computer, the GRUB screen lists a Windows Repair option now. I can get it to load, but it throws an error stating "No file system recognized". I assume this is because at this point I have my whole hard drive partitioned to Ubuntu.
Compounding matters: I don't have a Windows 7 CD. I bought this machine from Best Buy a few years ago (read: out of warranty) but it had Windows 7 on it by default, hence the restore factory settings option I have in the GRUB screen.
So what I'm looking for at this point is a concise way to remove Ubuntu from my system and reformat the whole hard drive to a Windows-friendly format like NTFS or whatever Windows 7 likes. Then, I should be able to snag the repair option, restore factory defaults, and roll from there.
So please, can you explain the uninstall process in as basic a manner as possible? I just don't know my way around Ubuntu well. I know how to open a command prompt and I do have the Ubuntu install CD. I read something about using a "bootrec /fixmbr" option but when I do that, I get an error stating that the bootrec command was not found. That's if I run it from either a command prompt while in Ubuntu or from the GRUB screen by pushing "c" for a command prompt there. I don't know where else I'd type it in if not in either of those places.