Remove Linux

 Uninstalling WD Linux

If you decide that Linux is not suitable for your needs then it can be removed with relative ease. The methodology is slightly different depending on the type of installation you have, whether you have a dual boot system or Linux is installed stand-alone. And whether the boot disk is IDE or SCSI.

Stand Alone IDE

• Run the install CD-ROM and select the uninstall option. The install program will then examine your disk and suggest the disk partitions on which it thinks that Linux is installed. If you did a standard install it should prompt you twice and then reboot the system.
• All that remains to do is to replace the boot record for your new operating system if necessary

Dual Boot IDE

Complete stage one as detailed above. All that is required then is to remove the boot menu. It resides in two files on the first disk containing Windows 9x/ME called autoexec.bat and config.sys. At the time that Linux was installed a backup of those two files was made, called autoexec.sdl and autoexec.sdl respectively.

Certain Windows programs add additional lines to the autoexec.bat and config.sys files when they install. If you have not installed any additional programs to your Windows operating system since the installation of Linux then it should just be a case of replacing the autoexec.bat and the config.sys files with the original files thus: -

Move autoexec.sdl autoexec.bat

Move config.sdl config.sys

If programs have been installed since the Linux operating system it would be wise to compare the configuration files and the original files before copying.

Stand Alone SCSI

The easiest way to remove a stand-alone SCSI disk installation is to Low Level Format the disk.

Dual Boot SCSI

Uninstalling a Dual Boot SCSI system is a more complex task, a utility is available to be used from within Linux to remove the operating system it can be found on the website www.workstaionsdirect.co.uk