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Reallocation of hard disk space

Asked by Dennis Horne on 2010-05-08

I am new to Linux so I installed the dual boot deal with Windows Xp on half of my hard drive and Ubuntu 9.10 on the other. Now after a few months I'd like to get rid of windows all together and just allocate the whole hard drive to Ubuntu. My question is :

1.Could I just delete the windows partion and re-allocate the space to Ubuntu without any serious problems and if so how could I get rid of the Grub boot loader and have it just boot straight into Ubuntu.

I would like to get around doing a fresh install of Ubuntu since I have lots of software added and have it configured the way I like.

All info/suggestions are welcome....Thanks

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Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu Edit question

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Solved by:: delance

Solved:: 2010-05-15

Last query:: 2010-05-15

Last reply:: 2010-05-14

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Runa (arundhati-bakshi) said on 2010-05-08:

Yes, just use gparted to delete w\the windows partition and then remove the grub entry and you're done. (I did this a few years ago and never regretted it.)

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delance (olivier-delance) said on 2010-05-08:

If Windows XP is on your first partition, removing XP partition and extended Ubuntu's one will probably overwrite the boot sector installed bu grub, at start of disk.

What you can do is:
   1) backup /home/horne in an external disk (or USB key if small enough)
   2) install Ubuntu on the whole disk
   3) restore /home/horne from external disk
You will recover all your personal settings.

Another solution will be to reduced Windows XP partition to smallest possible partition size (I presume it's simply one sector) and extend Ubuntu to the remains. For this, solution is to use Live CD (Ubuntu CD with option "no install") and use System->Administration->GParted