Removing windows from a dual boot box

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Fri Aug 19 17:16:44 UTC 2005


kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com wrote:

> My son has an athalon-64 box running FC3 and Windoze in a dual boot setup.
> He has finally had it with windows and wants to rid his machine of it
> entirely.
> 
> The final straw was a video problem that after running windows caused the
> machine to show barely readable graphics with a big blob as a cursor and
> lines throughtout the display until he logged into windows, then the
> display was fine until he re-booted. after 2 successive reboots into Linux
> the issue went away -wierd!!
> 
> Anyhow, can anyone explain to me how to go about deleting the disk space
> used for windows and reclaiming that space for Linux?

I would just use fdisk to change the partition type to linux,
and then create a new file-system on it with mkfs.ext3 .

However, although I use Linux 99% of the time,
I always keep a Windows partition on my machines,
as it is almost certain to come in handy sooner or later.
Eg some cards can only be updated under Windows.
Also, if there is a problem under Linux,
it is often useful to know if it is hardware or software,
and a Windows system helps with that.

I do usually shrink Windows partitions, though.

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