Removing Ubuntu, help please Options

[The Grand Piper]

Here i am again with some more problems haha, i installed ubuntu because i had never used linux before. I installed it on a Seagate external hard drive. Now, whenever have the hard drive in it will boot to ubuntu, i would use ubuntu but it does not support my belkin wireless usb adapter, i just select windows from the Boot screen. Whenever i do not have the hard drive connected to my pc, i cannot boot anything, i believe the error says GRUB 1.5 loading, Error 5. Now i have been searching the internet but i have not came across anything dealing with the removal of linux from an external hard drive, so i decided i would ask you guys...

anyone have an idea? thanks, piper

[MaD_cOw]

You could try this:

You need to go into the BIOS and set the CD to be the first device to boot, put the hard drive second.
Do you have Windows installed already? If so, boot from the CD, enter the recovery console (press R when it asks you whether you want to install windows etc.) When you're at the console, type:

fixmbr

and that will remove GRUB from your system.

If you don't have Windows installed, GRUB will be overwritten as part of the installation.

-or-

It is very simple to restore a DOS or Windows MBR. Just enter the MS-DOS command (available since DOS version 5.0) fdisk /MBR. These commands only write the first 446 bytes (the boot code) into the MBR and leave the partition table untouched.

Those suggestions were both taken from:
http://www.ntcompatible.com/How_to_remove_...der_t28242.html

there are more on that thread, so if the ones above don't work I would read the rest of the thread.

-Mad_cow