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Give riddance to xp

Asked by Dizzy

I've just installed Ubuntu no problem, It runs fine but I cant figure out how to get rid of xp. I have Ubuntu Installed on a seperate drive than xp but its partitioned as i had data on that drive originally. Ideally I would like to remove all data from my C drive on which xp is installed, un-partition my D drive (and remove all other data) this is the drive that Ubuntu is on and leave ubuntu as my sole OS. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

To better understand your disk status.

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo fdisk -l

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Copy and paste the result here

Thank you

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Dizzy (di22y) said : 		#2

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
       fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
       fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
       fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors

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Allen Chemist (alchemist) said : 		#3

That should have been a lowercase L on the end of that, not an i or 1, which stands for "List"

Can you do that command once more, using the L on the end?

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Dizzy (di22y) said : 		#4

Hey somebody has managed to sort this out for me thanks for the help though