uninstall ubuntu temporarily

[joordee]

Hi guys,I had vista on my computer and I decided to dual boot ubuntu as well, now that ubuntu is installed I cant get back to windows, A screen comes up saying loading grub please wait, but I dont get the choice of loading vista

[niyonk]

Hi, you might want to repair vista's bootloader
and use the easybcd to add ubuntu entry
or if you want to use grub as the default, then post your menu.lst (where the entries are stored)
type into the command line 'gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst '
and paste the entries, from there we can help you

[joordee]

how do I do that

[niyonk]

how do you do what?

the Grub part or vista bootloader part?

[joordee]

you could tell me how to do both if you dont mind

[niyonk]

Vista - insert the Vista DvD, let it boot. and now check the first attachment then choose start-up repair from the second attachment.
your vista will be safe to boot now, but not Ubuntu you are going to have to add it from the easybcd program.

-Ubuntu... hm...i am not sure but maybe you menu.lst can tell us something before i can know if it is the wrong entry in Grub

[joordee]

Ill give you some more information. I installed Ubuntu on an external hard drive, Ubuntu will only work if I make my eternal drive the first disk in setup. Vista is supposed to be on the my original built in drive but when I boot from that drive I get a screen that says loading grub please wait..., but it doesent do anything, the dvd only works when I boot from my external drive,and I only saw an option to install windows probaly because it doesent see that windows is already installed on the other disk, but I cant install windows on te other disk because it cant install windows on a drive that uses a usb.so how would I get the disk to work on my interal hard drive

[niyonk]

I am afraid I can't help you much when it comes to external hard drives...

As for you internal one, we can help you make grub recognize the vista partition from there..someone will help you in your dual-boot process.

-Again, i need to know what your menu.lst contains otherwise i cant tell why vista isn't booting..
BTW, can you view your vista partition from Ubuntu itself?

Sorry, again. I haven't played around with external HDDs alot. I wouldnt want to ruin your setup

[joordee]

no it says that it cant mount it.

[joordee]

I can only view the partition if I boot the windows dvd and and I can see the partitions that I have a choice to install windows on, but I tried to install windows on the first partition which is my internal hard drive and it says that it cant install on that partition(says something about volume, even though it has 126 gigs of free space)