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<blockquote data-quote="CaldwellYSR" data-source="post: 1345141" data-attributes="member: 200976"><p>Okay so here it goes... When I got to college I was told I would need a linux partition on my laptop to do Comp Sci homework on my laptop (turned out to be wrong but whatever). Thinking myself competent, I went ahead and partitioned the harddrive using disk utility and installed Ubuntu. Woo hoo it works. I boot into Ubuntu and get to work, get it working in a way that I really like. Then the next time I shut down and try to boot into Mac... lo and behold, Mac is gone... and so is Ubuntu. Not sure what I did but the whole bloody HDD was void of an operating system. On hand I had the Ubuntu disk that I had made but not the Mac install disk since it was at home.</p><p></p><p>Now it's winter break and I'm home. I finally found the Mac install disk and, despite actually enjoying my time with Ubuntu, I would like to put Mac back on my MacBook. I'm quite nervous this go around because I don't want to mess up again so I need some guidance about what to do. I would like to get rid of Ubuntu and install Mac OSX. Obviously I need to backup all the files I want to keep but then how do I go about removing Ubuntu from the HDD and installing Mac OS X?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CaldwellYSR, post: 1345141, member: 200976"] Okay so here it goes... When I got to college I was told I would need a linux partition on my laptop to do Comp Sci homework on my laptop (turned out to be wrong but whatever). Thinking myself competent, I went ahead and partitioned the harddrive using disk utility and installed Ubuntu. Woo hoo it works. I boot into Ubuntu and get to work, get it working in a way that I really like. Then the next time I shut down and try to boot into Mac... lo and behold, Mac is gone... and so is Ubuntu. Not sure what I did but the whole bloody HDD was void of an operating system. On hand I had the Ubuntu disk that I had made but not the Mac install disk since it was at home. Now it's winter break and I'm home. I finally found the Mac install disk and, despite actually enjoying my time with Ubuntu, I would like to put Mac back on my MacBook. I'm quite nervous this go around because I don't want to mess up again so I need some guidance about what to do. I would like to get rid of Ubuntu and install Mac OSX. Obviously I need to backup all the files I want to keep but then how do I go about removing Ubuntu from the HDD and installing Mac OS X? [/QUOTE]
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