Compaq V2000 - Hardy Terror - ATI Xpress 200 failure

[hiddensphinx]

Upgrading on a Compaq V2000 Presario from Fiesty Fawn to Gutsy Gibson was cool...I could even sleep through the entire process......

but going from Gutsy Gibson to Hardy Terror is a complete destruction of my precious 10GB space allocated to UBUNTU on my laptop.

- ATI Restricted drivers do not work and they get dumped after the required reboot.

- Error message appears saying that video card (ATI X200) "cannot be detected"..last time I ever buy a Canadian video card :guitar:

- look like the restricted drivers do not recognize the Xpress ATI Radeon X200 chips in laptops...I thought UBUNTU was meant to be friendly or at least it was with GUTSY GIBSON.

- My only choice is to kill the GRUB and remove UBUNTU from my dual boot WIN XP / Gutsy "was" Gibson > failed Hardy Terror install

SO how do I remove Ubuntu from my dual boot computer now including the GRUB bootloader?

Please help..you are my only hope..I do not want to be left with a 10Gb dead horse in my beautiful laptop :popcorn:

[HeresJohnny]

Hey, I have the same computer model as you, and I must say, going from Edgy to Gutsy via command-line was a disaster for me. Since then, I have learned my lesson, and always do a clean install from a cd. I installed Hardy beta (64-bit, even) from cd-rom and it was fabulous; it was the best that I've ever experienced working with a brand new system. Restricted drivers manager, once I enabled it, set up for Compiz right off the bat *without* installing XGL or having to create another session just to use the eye candy. I couldn't believe it!

I say all this not because I can help you uninstall GRUB or anything like that. It sounds like you upgraded over a network. May I suggest that you download a CD image, burn it and try it that way? I think you'll find a night and day difference.

Either way, good luck. I'm going to install from media this evening (32-bit; at the end of the day, I just don't need to run 64-bit until the arch team decides to make 64-bit a focus of development).