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post #1 of 12
11/26/04 at 5:21pm
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Hello,
Yesturday I installed Mandrake 10.1. After a couple of hours fooling around with it, I don't feel the need of it anymore. I made two partitions, one for windows, 45 GB's, and the other for linux, 15 GB's. Now I want to delete my linux partition and have no clue how to without deleting my windows one. Assistance please?
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post #2 of 12
11/26/04 at 9:23pm
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Originally Posted by viper8547
Hello,
Yesturday I installed Mandrake 10.1. After a couple of hours fooling around with it, I don't feel the need of it anymore. I made two partitions, one for windows, 45 GB's, and the other for linux, 15 GB's. Now I want to delete my linux partition and have no clue how to without deleting my windows one. Assistance please?
Easiest and quickest, while being the dirtiest way, is to just use FDisk under windows, open a command prompt and type fdisk. Delete the linux partition and create a new partition, NTFS if you have the option to format it, otherwise wait to do so using the windows formatting utility.

That will give you what appears to be another HD to use as you need, to make it into part of the Windows Partition you will need a better Disk Partitioning utility, disk druid is on your linux disk probably and can probably do it, but I am not sure. Partition magic is another one that you have to pay for though.

The real catch will be the bootloader is you chose to install that on the MBR and want to remove it. It should work just fine if you just choose windows every time, otherwise I believe you will need the windows install CD, and there is an option somewhere on it I tihnk to 'repair MBR'. Someone more familiar with windows will have to fill in my blanks on that, but anyways that should rebuild the windows MBR.

Seablade
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post #3 of 12
11/26/04 at 10:23pm
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Alright, I deleted my linux partition via winxp disk. Now I have around 12,000 MB of unpartitioned space. So I have my C: windows partition and some other unpartitioned space. Can I now add that space (around 12 GB) back onto my windows partition?
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post #4 of 12
11/26/04 at 10:52pm
You need a utility like partition magic. You can get a free trial here http://www.soft32.com/download-Parti...gic-151-5.html. I don't know what the limitations of the trial are though.
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post #5 of 12
11/26/04 at 11:03pm
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Originally Posted by viper8547
Alright, I deleted my linux partition via winxp disk. Now I have around 12,000 MB of unpartitioned space. So I have my C: windows partition and some other unpartitioned space. Can I now add that space (around 12 GB) back onto my windows partition?
If that link to partition magic doesnt work what you can do temporarily is what I suggested of just making it another partition, unless there is a file over 13 GB you really need, a 12 GB partition should more than work for you

That is the easy solution, as someone else said you need a good partitioning program to do it, and I dont know of any outside of linux that are free that will do it, but you might wanna search Tucows.com to see if something comes up.

Seablade
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post #6 of 12
11/27/04 at 1:57am
In fact, Magic Druid can resize partitions. It comes on some distros, and I think it also comes on the Madrake CD set.

So, you _can_ add all that space to win with free programs around, but I would follow seablade "easiest" suggestion to create a _new_ partition and use it under XP. Just because this "easiest' solution turns out to be the "best" solution - I don't like the slow system that is to use only one huge partition.
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post #7 of 12
11/27/04 at 2:08am
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Sweet, I just resized my windows partition back to normal.

Thanks everyone for helping

PS, I used Partition Magic 8.0
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post #8 of 12
11/27/04 at 8:34pm
That has to be the briefest excursion into Linux that I've ever heard of...

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #9 of 12
11/27/04 at 9:29pm
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Hehe,
Yes well,
I am a linux n00b. I think I downloaded some wierd version of linux mandrake 10.1 community. After the install, I only got command prompts. First to log in, then on, I had to type stuff. Like MS-DOS.
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post #10 of 12
11/27/04 at 9:49pm
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Originally Posted by viper8547
Hehe,
Yes well,
I am a linux n00b. I think I downloaded some wierd version of linux mandrake 10.1 community. After the install, I only got command prompts. First to log in, then on, I had to type stuff. Like MS-DOS.
Heh yea then XWindows didnt install right, and is not the easiest thing to fix yourself admitedly.

Next time if there is one I would go ahead and try Suse linux, I have yet ot have a problem with them really on the install other than them installingmore software than I would ever use.

Though to be honest MS-Dos was the last good thing Microcrud ripped off, everything else they only halfway ripped off and made worse

Seablade
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post #11 of 12
11/28/04 at 1:23am
If you really want just a brief intro before plunging headlong, try a LiveCD. I highly recommend then. Personally, I prefer Knoppix. However, a lot of distros have created their own now. Ubuntu will even ship you a pre-stamped CD if you wish. Most of these work almost perfectly right out of the box and give a real idea of what linux can do.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #12 of 12
11/28/04 at 1:54am
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Originally Posted by zakaluka2
If you really want just a brief intro before plunging headlong, try a LiveCD. I highly recommend then. Personally, I prefer Knoppix. However, a lot of distros have created their own now. Ubuntu will even ship you a pre-stamped CD if you wish. Most of these work almost perfectly right out of the box and give a real idea of what linux can do.

Regards,

zakaluka2.

Heh worth repeating, I had my first experience with live CDs recently(And I have been using Linux for years) and was fairly impressed by some. I believe that Knoppix is one that gets tossed around a lot, and was what one of the distros I tried out was based on and wasnt bad at all.

Only disadvantage I found is installing software to try out, like openoffice or in my case audio software, if not already installed it is difficult to install for live CDs since they dont do you any good after you reboot

But they are in fact good ways to get around and used to linux.

Seablade
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