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Reclaiming a Hard Drive Partition

Teg Veece · 2009-10-21 04:16:11

When I first got my laptop, I partitioned the hard drive and installed Ubuntu on the other half. However, after almost a year of flipping back and forth between Windows and Linux, I've final sided with the Evil Empire. Is it possible to reclaim the Linux half of my hard drive without jeopardising the files on the Windows…

21-10-2009 4:16am

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Teg Veece

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When I first got my laptop, I partitioned the hard drive and installed Ubuntu on the other half.

However, after almost a year of flipping back and forth between Windows and Linux, I've final sided with the Evil Empire.

Is it possible to reclaim the Linux half of my hard drive without jeopardising the files on the Windows half?

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#2 21-10-2009 11:38am

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make sure the windows partition is the one set to active, otherwise deleting the unix one will stop your computer booting up

actually it might be better off just formatting the unix partiton to E: and use it as another drive instead of re-sizing the windows one - less to go wrong.

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