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Formatting dual boot system

irishdude11 · 2011-09-23 16:37:58

I have a dual boot linux mint and xp system with grub bootloader. I dont use the dual boot so I want to get rid of it. How do I complete wipe everything off this drive so I can then put just a single operating system on it?

23-09-2011 04:37PM

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irishdude11

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I have a dual boot linux mint and xp system with grub bootloader. I dont use the dual boot so I want to get rid of it. How do I complete wipe everything off this drive so I can then put just a single operating system on it?

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#2 23-09-2011 05:13PM

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no need to format anything, i'm guessing you want to just run xp ? all you need do is, re-write the windows mbr over grub, then delete the linux partition, you can do this from inside xp, you can then expand the windows partition to reclaim the space, mint was using,

check my posts in this thread for easy guide

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#3 23-09-2011 05:22PM

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i want to put windows 7 on so i do need to format the whole thing.

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#4 23-09-2011 05:25PM

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ah ok, just pop in the disc or what ever you using, let the installer do its thing, you'll get to a screen, click advanced, there will be an option to delete and format the current partitions, delete them all, till all you have is "free space", then click format, and that'll make a clean ntfs partition for you to install to...

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