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how to delete windows 7 from the hard drive containing Ubuntu

Asked by Mathew Sebastian

I installed Natty, unfortunately online without partitioning or trying out the Natty 11.04. This is now residing in the same drive as the Ubuntu. I am running out of HDD spacen and would like to remove Windows to avail of this extra space. I have no Swap space, so the computer crashes when i try to suspend / hibernate it. Can you help?
Sony P19 WN

2GB Ram Windows 7 Professional
upgraded from Vista 60 GB Hd

Thank you
Mat

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo fdisk -l; lsb_release -a

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

Could you provide partition table: https://answers.launchpad.net/grub/+faq/1678

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Mathew Sebastian (notfalldoc) said : 		#3

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Your question #172208 on gnome-disk-utility in Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+question/172208

delance requested more information:
Could you provide partition table:
https://answers.launchpad.net/grub/+faq/1678

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#4

if you don't want to use windoze 7 at all, you can just reinstall ubuntu and when ask, choose use entire disk. this is write over windoze and install ubuntu in one huge partition. swap space will automatically be created.

if there are files/documents created in windoze that you want to keep, copy them over to a usb drive or something else before you do the installation.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#5

I received nothing. Launchpad doesn't manage attached files. You have to copy paste on post itself.
Marcus solution could be an easier way that manipulating partitions and boot manager.

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Mathew Sebastian (notfalldoc) said : 		#6

Hi Guys
I kept it simple and followed Marcus' suggestion and have the whole disk for ubuntu. Thank you for all your support. Mat