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making the final move from w7!

Asked by david

Hi,
Ok I first had Wubi - & a lot of fun - then I installed 12-4 as an "alongside dual boot with w7". I'm now ready to have Ubuntu as my 1 & only OS. Yes, I've read all the comments about how it's advised to keep windows "just in case" but I've really had enough of it & there's nothing there that I can't adequately accomplish with Ubuntu!!!
Now, I need to know how to make this final switch as smoothly as possible & without losing TOOOOO much of my customisation. I don't know so much about partitioning so if advice could be given in the simplest terms, that'd be nice :)
Also....I've made a backup to an external drive of just about all the data that's important to me but, I must ask: How much is actually lost during this process? And is it in fact easier to copy files from w7 to Ubuntu first?
thanks to all for any advice,
david

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Jeet (gour-jitendrasingh) said : 		#1

Here it is ::

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToRemoveWindows

Thanks
~Jeet

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david (zaanta) said : 		#2

Thanks a lot Jeet...the OS Uninstaller program looks like it was made for me lol

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

As long as you have a backup you can go nuts :). I suggest making a 15Gb partition for /, 1.1xRAM for swap (I assume more than 2Gb RAM) and the rest as /home

This gives a great backup possibillity and keeps your user data separate from the OS files.

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