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Re-allocating partitions once uninstalled

Asked by Mike Beard

Hi.

I recently went to Add/ Remove Programs and uninstalled Ubuntu that way, which worked fine, however it looks like the partitions are still out there... How do I know which partition was used for Ubuntu so I can wipe it and reallocate it to Windows??

Thanks,

Mike

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Rajinder Sandhu (sandy744) said : 		#1

the partition will be having ext3 format or ext4 format but this will not be visible with windows so you need to boot with live cd and then reformat this and swap partition to ntfs or fat32 as per your choice. open gparted partition manager and do the necessary reformatting in manual mode. When the partition manager is running it will display all the partitions on the hdd select the one you want to reformat....

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Mike Beard (mike-beard828) said : 		#2

Ummm... is there not an easier way to do it? Cant I do it in Disk Management? ( I have win 7..)

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Rajinder Sandhu proposed the following answer:
the partition will be having ext3 format or ext4 format but this will
not be visible with windows so you need to boot with live cd and then
reformat this and swap partition to ntfs or fat32 as per your choice.
open gparted partition manager and do the necessary reformatting in
manual mode. When the partition manager is running it will display all
the partitions on the hdd select the one you want to reformat....

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Rajinder Sandhu (sandy744) said : 		#3

well windows 7 will not be reading partitions having ext3 or ext4 and swap file systems which are used in linux....and if you can not see them in windows that clearly means it is not detecting it...so run a live cd and without installing ubuntu just with the help of live cd you can change the format to ntfs or fat32

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