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I have two versions of Ubuntu running, but need to delete one, how!?

Asked by banwich11

Okay, so I installed Fiesty Fawn a few days ago, and somehow during setup I screwed up and my wireless card wasn't working. So my Dad decided to reinstall Ubuntu. The good news is that my wireless card works now and everythings perfect, but the bad news is that the previous setup of Ubuntu that I installed days earlier is still on my hard drive. When we were asked about partitioning the disc for the current installation of Ubuntu that I'm using we noticed that the other Ubuntu is still there. So when boot manager shows up there is this ubuntu, windows xp, and the other ubuntu which i want to get rid of. How can I safely remove the other Ubuntu and keep this one and my windows intact? Any help is greatly appreciated!!

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Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#1

Thanks for your question,

You can do it with the gparted livecd:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

You can boot with this livecd, delete the unnecessary partitions and then expand the other partitions.

If you don't know exactly which partition you can delete and which you can expand, we can help you.
Open a terminal and report the output of these 2 commands:
sudo fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab

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kldhrted (kldhrted) said : 		#2

Heres what mine says. I want to erase 6.06lts and keep fiesty

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 12498 100390153+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 12499 18300 46604565 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 23707 24321 4939987+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 18301 23706 43423695 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 23944 24321 3036253+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 23707 23943 1903639+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order
justin@justin-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda4
UUID=851ad64e-b8e1-4539-89a6-2870b7c53839 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=54b0d11e-32fa-4dc5-8d23-9d5cd9097eab none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto

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kldhrted (kldhrted) said : 		#3

I downloaded the cd. Let me know what's next? please!!!

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