--- In [email protected], "Ty Giannattasio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> [Can I] get rid of a linux partion if I don't want it?
Sure, but the question is, what do you intend to use the space for
instead of Ubuntu? You can reformat it via Gparted or such.
> (...) [I]s there something like this in Windoze that I can
accomplish this with? I will want all the space back in my XP
partition also.
Oh, you're talking a dual-boot setup here. Plenty of Windoze
programs, but you'll likely have to spend money on them. Back when I
needed such a few years back, I went with Partition Magic. Better to
use the tools available from booting up a Linux LiveCD. Free
Windoz/DOS ones exist, like floppy-based Ranish Partitioner, but tend
to have less-user-friendly dos-shell style interfaces.
You wouldn't have needed to peel much away from XP's partition to set
up Linux, especially on a trial basis. 5-7GB ought to be all you need
for everything except /home (this includes room for future expansion,
unless Ubuntu has bloated...), 1-2GB swap, and however many GB you can
spare for /home (comparable to XP's C:\Documents and Settings). Call
it roughly 10% of a 120GB drive or 20% of an 80GB drive, total. Of
course, I don't know how big *your* HD is...
If you nuke Ubuntu, and don't try any other Linuxes, you certainly
could delete the ex-Linux partition, and then resize the NTFS/XP
partition upwards to reclaim the now-unformatted space, but it could
still (potentially) screw up your XP partition. It might be better to
keep it separate and format it as FAT32 or NTFS and use it as a
personal-data storage partition. It'll just become another drive letter.
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