How to uninstall on a dual boot without messing up windows? (SOLVED)

[JakeLogan]

I used my wife's PC to make a boot disk from the control panel. She has the same laptop I do so she didn't have a recovery disk either.. this worked great to get into the console to access the command prompt. I'm happy to report now all is well and I know what to do for next time.

DJohnson, my Linux install was 20 gigs.. my hard drive total is 250.. ran out of space on the windows partition and had to have room to install the tools for backup as well as have room to help me juggle things around for making temp folders and organizing stuff for backup.

I do thank everyone for all the great info, you guys are TOPS !

[buckeye]

This will do nothing useful as the menu.lst file will be deleted along with the rest of the / partition.

I think he already deleted the PCL partition.  I believe that's the / partition you are talking about.  This is why he can't boot.  Configure Computer -> Boot -> Set up boot system will write a new menu.lst to the existing partition which is his W7.  That should get grub to boot windows, right?  Remember, he's trying to uninstall PCL.

[Old-Polack]

This will do nothing useful as the menu.lst file will be deleted along with the rest of the / partition.

I think he already deleted the PCL partition.  I believe that's the / partition you are talking about.  This is why he can't boot.  Configure Computer -> Boot -> Set up boot system will write a new menu.lst to the existing partition which is his W7.  That should get grub to boot windows, right?  Remember, he's trying to uninstall PCL.

The PCLOS installation was deleted, then restored/reinstalled along with a new grub install, in order to temporarily boot Windows. When the PCLOS installation is again removed, grub will again be non functional, which is why the Windows boot code needs to be in the MBR. This has now all been done, and JakeLogan has what he needed to proceed with his backup of the Win7 system.