Uninstalling Linux without screwing up Windows

I have a Windows XP, Mandrake Linux dual boot PC. I had installed Linux after windows as normally anybody will do.  I had done this almost 2 years back and unfortunately out of nowhere I had given a 2 GB Partition for the Windows Installation Drive. I know, I know...What on earth was I thinking?

My system started complaining of too less space in the OS directory and applications started behaving abnormally (probably because they expected some space in the temp directory and didnt find much). So I decided to uninstall Linux and resize by Windows Installation Partition. The problem was I didnt have a clue how to?

So I went on a search on how to uninstall Linux without screwing up the windows installation because simply deleteing the partition will screw up my MBR and would leave my hard disk useless.

Finally I did finf a way. I used the Windows Installation CD to boot and went inside the Windows Recovery Console (Press F10 or R). I then used the command fixmbr to overwrite my MBR.

Then I restarted the machine which automatically booted to my XP and then used the Windows Device Manager to delete and format the Linux Partitions.

I then used Partition Magic to resize my OS installed Drive and then restarted my machine to apply changes. It all went like a charm!

Installing Subversion in Windows

I decided I had enough of CVSNT and went ahead to install Subversion in my machine.

First I downloaded Subversions exe svn 1.3.2

All of you who I think I am crazy not to have gone to the tigris site please stop your bad mouthings. The clicksetup thingy always returned a "page not found" so I decided I will choose this alternate site.

I also downloaded the TortoiseSVN 1.3.5 and Rapid SVN client 0.8.0 from the same site.

Then I went ahead and installed the subversion exe thingy to my system. Amazing enough it went without a hitch! The I installed the tortoise and Rapid SVN client thingy too and everything was amazingly sucessful. Now that was easy!

The Tortoise thingy asked me to restart my machine which I did and I could see it integrated with the windows explorer.

I created a folder called svnrepo where I decided I will keep all my repositories and then created another folder called Test under it.

I went inside Test, right clicked - > Tortoise - > Create New Repositiory and wallah I got a new repository. Ofcourse I selected the fsfs as the means of storage (mostly because I liked the name of the Berkeley thingy).

Then I downloaded SVNService placed the exe in the bin directory of subversion and ran "SVNService -install -d -r d:\svnrepo" and then started the service ensuring to change the startup type to automatic in the control panel.

Thats it....subversion was up and running and I had my first repostory too.