Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux flavor. Release 12.04 have support till April 2017. Here are steps on how to install it on your window machine. Official website links are provided for help.
Ubuntu can be installed in 3 ways.
If you have installed Linux on its own partition in a dual-boot
configuration, there’s no easy uninstaller that will remove it for you.
You will need to delete its partitions and repair the Windows boot
loader on your own.
To remove the Ubuntu from your system, follow these steps.
In windows 8, there is a feature of "fast start-up" which is somehow equivalent to hibernate. It saves your system state in hibernate.sys file so that when next time you boot up the system it takes just few seconds to start. This feature is enables by default and most of the users are unaware of it. But this feature cause a problem to Linux users. When you boot the Linux OS and try to mount the drives it throws the error and doesn't allow you to access it.