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How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on?

I have absolutely no experience with Linux, and I desperately need to get my computer back up and running again with Windows. How do I remove Ubuntu and reinstall Windows? Editor's note: many of the ...
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How do I remove "Ubuntu" in the bios boot menu? (UEFI)

See this ubuntu appears in BIOS menu (UEFI) I have this on my Lenovo s205 too. Is there some way to remove "ubuntu" from the menu? I don't even have it installed anymore.
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Dual boot Win 8 / Ubuntu loads only Win

My computer is a Sony Vaio Notebook. I used Ubuntu and Win 8 with dualboot but windows somehow managed to remove the menu to choose the OS at startup. I think the BIOS is UEFI. Secure boot was ...
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How to remove "Ubuntu" from Boot Menu after deleting Ubuntu partition in Windows 10 (Dual Boot)

I have recently installed dual-boot with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. After messing around with Ubuntu, I decided it was time for a clean re-install. I booted back into Windows 10 and deleted ...
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Boot Ubuntu from external drive [duplicate]

I have been trying for a week to install (not live cd) Ubuntu on an external drive. I am totally new to Linux and would love to try it out. That's why I want to install it on an external drive and ...
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How to uninstall Ubuntu from dual boot and change the bootloader? [duplicate]

I have a Windows 7/Ubuntu 11.10 dual-boot setup, where I am running the OSes on separate partitions on my laptop's HDD. I assume the best method of uninstalling is "simply" a matter of ...
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Windows 11 erases GRUB every time I launch it from GRUB itself

So I have been trying to solve this problem from several hours for now: Problem explanation I bought a new computer (HP OMEN 15) with Windows 11 already installed. I did a dual boot with ubuntu, which ...
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How to restore Windows boot loader after removing Ubuntu

I am just about to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, just need to make sure I know how to remove it later. I know from past the major problem was when I removed Ubuntu, I either still got into the ...
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PC Stuck on GRUB screen

So basically I had Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04 installed on a dual boot using grub. I decided I didn't want ubuntu any more so I deleted the Linux hard drive partitions out of my disk manger on ...
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How do I completely remove Ubuntu/Grub and replace it with the Windows 7 bootloader? [duplicate]

I installed Ubuntu successfully by using acpi=off and nolapic. When I booted into the installed operating system, all that the screen showed was several multi colored bars (This must have been my 10,...
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How to totally remove ubuntu from boot menu after Windows dual boot

I dual booted windows 10 and ubuntu. Now, I don't want the Ubuntu. So I deleted the ubuntu partitions. Next, I used the Windows recovery drive to run bootrec.exe /fixmbr in cmd.So If I power my pc now,...
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Can't remove Ubuntu from boot priority order

It seems that I can't completely remove Ubuntu from BIOS/Firmware settings of my PC; I also use Windows 10, by the way. I already removed the partitions where I had Ubuntu, and extended my Windows ...
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Ubuntu will never boot or finish install. Freezes at "grub2" (even with boot-repair) shows not bootable device

(http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/6P8bhRK5Gr/) I am working on a Acer Aspire ES17 which previously had windows 10 installed. I want to remove windows 10 completely and use Ubuntu. Using Rufus i made a ...
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remove Ubuntu from dual-boot system

I had Ubuntu 15.10 and Windows 10 on the same drive. I wanted to remove Ubuntu so I did following steps: go to disk manager and remove two Ubuntu partitions and add free space to windows partition. ...
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How do I cleanly and completely remove Grub on Ubuntu 22.04

I have replaced Grub with rEFInd on my system and am very happy about it. I now wish to completely uninstall Grub and make sure that Ubuntu isn't bringing it back the next time it installs updates. I ...
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