Removing Fedora

I'm removing Fedora from the family desktop in favor of Ubuntu:

1. First, read the uninstall instructions from Fedora.
2. That explains that the Windows recovery disk is needed. Find that.
3. You may also need the admin password. Find that if needed. 
4. In order to avoid getting half way through and ending up with an unbootable system, insert the disk and restart the computer. At the first screen press Enter. Then press F12 to select the option to boot from the CD/DVD. If it boots from the recovery disk and everything looks good, restart the machine back to Windows.
5. Follow the Fedora uninstall instructions to start diskmgmt.msc.
6. In the Disk Management GUI, two partitions have a blank field for the File System. One is nameless with 500 MB and another is named E: with 23.11 GB.
7. Follow the instructions to delete these two partitions.
8. Use the instructions to start diskpart.
9. I followed the instructions to extend the volume for C: but got the error message:

   DiskPart failed to extend the volume.
   Please make sure the volume is valid for extending.

10. Come back to this later since it isn't absolutely required. It just wastes space.
11. Restart the machine and hit Enter at the first screen. Then press F12 to boot from an alternate device. Select the CD/DVD drive and boot to the setup utility. 
12. It's a complete mystery to me how fixmbr was completed, but after booting from the disk and looking for the right options as described, the machine successfully booted to Windows XP.
13. After booting to XP and checking that I could successfully reboot to XP without any problems, I went back into diskmgmt.msc.
14. At first I tried creating a partition from the 500 MB unallocated space and then extending that into the 23 GB space. Same error as above.
15. Then I figured out that the 23 GB region was already allocated as a partition. I deleted that partition so it became unallocated, and automatically merged with the prior 500 MB region.
16. I selected that region and created a single new E: volume using the menus in Disk Management.

Install and Set Up Ubuntu

Then install Ubuntu via Windows through the wubi download. The installer automatically located the E: volume, so I installed it there.

Then I just needed to configure the network printer.

1. Open System Settings
2. Click on Printers
3. Using all of the defaults from the menus didn't work.
4. Change the device URI to http://192.168.1.130
5. For Make and Model, click Change
6. Select Brother (forward)
7. Select Brother HL-2170W Foomatic (forward)
8. Apply the settings and print a test page.

To make Ubuntu the default OS at boot time, see these instructions.

In order to set the hostname, start a terminal and do 'sudo vi /etc/hostname'.In there, change the host name to new name. The do 'sudo vi /etc/hosts' and change the 127.0.1.1 name to the same thing.