[Solved] I installed Ubuntu alongside windows 7 and now it's all messed up.

[mau5trap]

After i installed ubuntu I played around with it a little. It then I decided to not use it, so I switched back to windows 7 and its all messed up! There's no sound no Internet I can't switch themes and it's stuck on the windows 98 theme, ease help I don't want to have to reinstall windows


EDIT: problem solved

 

[isometry]

It sounds like Windows is loading in safe mode. When you turn on your machine, does it give you a choice between Windows and Ubuntu? Are there only two choices, or does it show multiple options for Windows?

Load up windows, go to the start menu and run "msconfig." The first tab is general, it has "normal startup" and "selective startup" etc. Make sure you are set to normal startup.

Just brace yourself for an incoming reinstall of Windows. In my experience, once its fucked up that bad, its fucked up for good.

Maybe, but the default procedure for installing Ubuntu doesn't touch any of the files on the Windows side, the only way they interact is when Ubuntu replaces the Windows bootloader with the GRUB bootloader. To me it sounds like GRUB might be loading his windows partition into safe mode.

 

[mau5trap]

It sounds like Windows is loading in safe mode. When you turn on your machine, does it give you a choice between Windows and Ubuntu? Are there only two choices, or does it show multiple options for Windows?

Load up windows, go to the start menu and run "msconfig." The first tab is general, it has "normal startup" and "selective startup" etc. Make sure you are set to normal startup.

Just brace yourself for an incoming reinstall of Windows. In my experience, once its fucked up that bad, its fucked up for good.

Maybe, but the default procedure for installing Ubuntu doesn't touch any of the files on the Windows side, the only way they interact is when Ubuntu replaces the Windows bootloader with the GRUB bootloader. To me it sounds like GRUB might be loading his windows partition into safe mode.

I tried uninstalling Ubuntu but the problem still persists so did I just screw myself over?

 

[mau5trap]

It sounds like Windows is loading in safe mode. When you turn on your machine, does it give you a choice between Windows and Ubuntu? Are there only two choices, or does it show multiple options for Windows?

Load up windows, go to the start menu and run "msconfig." The first tab is general, it has "normal startup" and "selective startup" etc. Make sure you are set to normal startup.

Just brace yourself for an incoming reinstall of Windows. In my experience, once its fucked up that bad, its fucked up for good.

Maybe, but the default procedure for installing Ubuntu doesn't touch any of the files on the Windows side, the only way they interact is when Ubuntu replaces the Windows bootloader with the GRUB bootloader. To me it sounds like GRUB might be loading his windows partition into safe mode.

Problem solved when I originally was in msconfig i forgot to hit apply User error Thanks all for the technical support

 

[DazZ.]

What do you mean exactly by you "uninstalled ubuntu"?

Alrighty then!

 

[mau5trap]

What do you mean exactly by you "uninstalled ubuntu"?

Start>Control Panel> Uninstall a program>Ubuntu

 

[DazZ.]

What do you mean exactly by you "uninstalled ubuntu"?

Start>Control Panel> Uninstall a program>Ubuntu

Oh you installed it in Windows and not as it's own OS.

Thought you meant you'd given it it's own partition.

 

[Esotera]

After i installed ubuntu I played around with it a little. It then I decided to not use it, so I switched back to windows 7 and its all messed up! There's no sound no Internet I can't switch themes and it's stuck on the windows 98 theme, ease help I don't want to have to reinstall windows


EDIT: problem solved

If you have any other problems regarding Ubuntu there's a linux usergroup on this site, and the ubuntu forums are always very friendly. Once you're used to it, Ubuntu's a much friendlier OS than Windows. Glad to hear you fixed everything.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Wait, were you running it through that Wubi thing? Didn't even know that could create problems of this magnitude.

Glad you got it fixed, shame you're sticking with Windows.