So I tried to uninstall ubuntu but I clicked the wrong one to uninstall and I can no longer access anything to uninstall the other version of ubuntu. I used the website, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OS-Uninstaller and followed the number 2 option. When i try to access my computer i can either go to the bios menu or i am faced with a black screen that says trying to recover grub. I was wondering if anyone had faced this problem before and knew what i should do. I should also mention that I'm trying to install windows 8.
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1You can install Windows 8 straight away. You don't need to "uninstall" Ubuntu. – Andrea Corbellini Aug 17 '15 at 16:33
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possible duplicate of How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on? – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Aug 19 '15 at 23:59
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First of all you have to install windows8 before installing Ubuntu just to avoid boot problems.
boot to ubuntu using Live-usb then, install os-uninstaller and uninstall the OS you want to remove. after that go ahead like this.
open the terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+T
then copy past this commands to it one after another,
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
and by this you will install a tool called boot-repair.
open boot repair from dash and you'll get this window
choose the recommended repair and follow the steps.
Note you have to be connected to they Internet when using boot-repair.
Note2 if you still want to install windows8 after Ubuntu, and grub goes missing do the steps above to fix it.