I have one hard drive that is partitioned: Windows7 and Ubuntu 9.04I was in windows and I removed the Ubuntu Partition from my hard drive. When I restarted my computer, it now gives me the grub rescue> prompt (unknown filesystem). I tried to run the Ubuntu Live CD to fix my problems from the command line, but it will not boot from CD giving me: "Buffer I/O error on device fd0,logical block 0)
View 3 Repliesis it possible to use a Windows-based recovery partition on a dual-boot computer to overwrite the Ubuntu partition and remove the GRUB loader? For instance, if you booted up your computer, accessed the hidden recovery partition and used it to reset the computer to it's factory default settings, would that effectively remove the Ubuntu partition and the GRUB loader? Would a completely new installation of Windows overwrite/uninstall Ubuntu and GRUB automatically?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have windows xp on dual boot, however I do not use it anymore also something happened to the boot sector so now it wont work. I want to remove it so that I can have ubuntu reclaim the partition and have grub removed from startup. How does one do this?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have installed FC12 on a system that previously had FC9, (My dads PC) So far everything is great (except adobe flash ), however when i installed it I erroneously assumed it would use the old /home folder, I think I miss interpreted what I read during install. the old data is still on the disk but I cannot mount it because it contains a boot partition. I tried to use GParted to modify the old partition but was unable to modify LVM???
How can I remove the old boot partition and rename the folder so I can mount it and access the files on it. There was nothing really important lost, it would just save me a lot of time if I could access the files.
I want to dual boot mac and ubuntu. Now, if I want to remove the ubuntu partion, how do I do so? (I have not yet installed Ubuntu)
View 2 Replies View RelatedI know this is a familiar looking question, but please hear me out.
I want to dual boot Fedora 15 with Ubuntu 11.04 (to try out GNOME Shell whilst not breaking Unity, which I quite like). As it's mostly to just to try out, I'll probably want to remove Fedora and go back to just Ubuntu, so I wan to ask how to remove the Fedora partition without doing any damage, and how to remove it from the GRUB menu at boot.
I have 4 OSes installed:
Windows XP on sda1
Backtrack on sda5-6
Ubuntu 11.04 on sda7-8
Ubuntu 10.10 on sda9-10
I want to remove Ubuntu 11.04 (partitions sda7-8). I tried using GParted from Ubuntu 10.10, but it says that I have to unmount logical partitions with a number higher than the one being removed.
I have an Acer Aspire Netbook running a dual boot with Xp and Ubuntu Netbook Version (Lucid Lynx if I am not mistaken?) Anyway I plan on selling this netbook and I need to remove the Ubuntu Partition and go back to just a full Windows Xp partition with it's recovery partition also.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI currently have both Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows XP installed on my PC. I want to remove the Ubuntu partition and leave the Windows partition. The question that I have is that when I remove it, Grub will go with it. Will that mess up my Windows partition?
What I need to do is remove Ubuntu and add the hdd space back to the other partition. I just don't want Grub's absence to keep me from being able to load Windows.
I am trying to install a box here where my /storage partition is about 2.5T.I had setup the partitioning with suse, while testing, and all worked well.Now when trying to install CentOs 5.5 it gives me an error, that my boot partition is on a gpt partition and this machine cannot boot that.Also I don't see the option to create XFS partitions from the installer.Can 5.5 support GPT @ install time?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow do I remove a partition through 9.04? I already have Gparted installed through apt-get. Removing is not a problem, the problem is how the heck do I know which partition I am using? I prevously installed 9.10 before and it went back, so i reinstalled 8.10 through my Linux Guru? friend help (see the question mark? you see why i mean by that). then I, myself, upgraded it to 9.04. When I was reinstalling 8.10, I see two partition on my hard drive, first is NTFS (window xp) and the ext4 partition (but the Live CD see it as ext3 partition). I attempted to delete the ext4 partition, it just did nothing which make me think it did something.
So I refreshed the screen and found out the ext4 is still there. So I ask my Linux Guru friend to help out. He went through custom setting to remove partition and he think he did it. and display a Welcome screen to set up my account. But my guts telling me that he didn't remove the ext4 partition. While he looking away, i went back to the partitioner screen and found out it still there. So i was like screw it and went ahead to create a new partition for 8.10 (but it shorten my Window partition which i need that for important things.) After installation, everything went ok. So i went back to my place and "sudo apt-get gparted" to bring up the GUI Parted. that where strange thing puzzled me. the Ubuntu 8.10 i am using show 50 GB filesystem, but Gparted show 60 and 70 GB ext 3 partition. I was confused how Gparted think i have more GB than what i set for. So I went to the root directory of my 8.10 then right click>proprieties to get the GB info.
Then it displayed that I have around 65GB filesystem. I was puzzled why it showing that. So i thought possible if i mount the ext4 partition and able to get the right info. But as usual, it can't mount the ext4 partition as error said but my Gparted show they both a ext3 Partition, not one of them displayed ext4. Both of them are ext3. So I remember that I give my ext4 partition more GB than my 8.10 and found one partition. But when I checked the 70GB partition properties. It said it is mounted but the 60GB one is not mounted. I was puzzled why my ext4 is mounted but my ext3 is not mounted. Again I am not using LiveCD this time. I am using my 8.10 partition and on the desktop with Gparted open. So I just decided to gamble it and tell gparted to remove the "ext3" 70GB. But error show up and said something that it cant be removed because it is mounted.
I was sitting there and wondering "how the heck did my 8.10 is using my ext4 filesystem if it can't mount it on the desktop but it can mount fine through Gparted?" I am trying to understand what is happening. The reason why i want to remove the ext4 partition, so i can give back that partition to my NTFS partition, giving back the space that my window need for my important things.Now I remember why it couldn't remove the partition. I thought it was a mount issue but I remember something. The ext4 partition is under Sda4 and sda5 while my current partition is using sda6 and sda7. So when i attempt to remove Sda4 and sda5, it said it can't remove because of the level of sda.
I am trying to reinstall ubuntu on my computer. I am now trying to create partition but I accidently created one that I do not want. Next to the name of the partition is a set of keys so I am guessing that it is locked. How do I remove that.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to remove my swap partition. Probably one I would have to boot into a rescue cd and remove it, but aside from that is there any other consideration or commands that I need to be aware of?
View 3 Replies View Relatedhow to remove Xubuntu ? I installed it on a small partition on my Ubuntu machine just to see how it worked. I was very impressed but now I wish to remove it and maybe install on my older machine.
View 5 Replies View RelatedFor the short time Ubuntu was usable on my system I loved it. I used it for about 95% of my computing needs. I enjoyed messing around with the command line and learning the ins and outs of what makes an OS tick. Unfortunately I lost the GUI and have spent hours and hours over many months trying to get it back to no avail.Now, I am having boot issues and my computer is acting weird. I blame Windows for this as it is a perennial problem and the main reason I went to Ubuntu. I use my laptop, my only computer, for work and any downtime, like loosing the GUI, really screws my world up. So, I am going to remove Ubuntu from this machine.
How do I do this? Can I just go to Windows and remove the partition? What about the Grub? This is my main concern as I get ulcers and flop sweats when my computer doesn't boot up.
using onboard windows disk management i have made 75gb unallocated to add to the aforementioned ntfs data partition. but, after resizing extended partition, will i need to fix grub even though i will be adding the unallocated space to a storage partition and not the ubuntu boot partition?
View 4 Replies View RelatedSplashtop caught my imagination of my own tv like computer-"1button and ready to go " have tried puppy xpudWebConverger still unhappy Now lucid aming for 10 sec boot-Keeping ma fingers crossed installed a minimal karmic and am getting a decent 27 sec I Jus Wanted to ask: Is there a way to remove the grub an directly boot into ubuntu -not just hiding it by editing grub.d files and any other ways to reduce boot time.......
View 9 Replies View RelatedOne thing I notice and hope someone here can steer me in the right direction. When I start up my computer I have the list of options to choose from, if I choose to boot into Win 7 I am the presented again with another boot menu from windows. I would like to remove the Windows boot loader.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to reinstall ubuntu on my computer. I am now trying to create partition but I accidently created one that I do not want. Next to the name of the partition is a set of keys so I am guessing that it is locked. How do I remove that.
View 4 Replies View RelatedThe name pretty much says it all. I have an old XP machine that I threw Heron on to play around with. I know have karmic running standalone on a different machine, and would like to get my whole hdd back on XP.
I've found some tips saying just load an xp disc and fixmbr from recovery console, but those posts are both old, and seem to cause as many problems for the people who tried it as fixed it.
Was wondering if there's been a better way developed to remove ubuntu and get my whole hard drive back for windows?
I'm trying to create a bootable HFS+ partition. I've succeeded in creating the HFS+ partition in Windows using Mac Drive 8, but need to set the partition to "Active" to be able to install an OS on it. The issue lies that when I try to set it to active in windows disk management it tells me that the media has been write protected by Mac Drive. I want to either set the partition as active (or at least disable write protection to allow me to set it as active in windows) or find another means of creating an HFS+ partition, which I know gparted claims to do but I can't manage to enable it. I'm currently running Windows 7 but I have Ubuntu 9.04 Live CD to use if necessary.
View 2 Replies View RelatedAnyone can show/tell or direct me to a guide to removing Windows 7 off my other partition? I'd just prefer to have Ubuntu 10.4 on the entire HD instead of dual booting. I came here so I didn't have to reinstall and wipe the entire HD to do so. Pretty sure there's a way to wipe 7 off the other side and update GRUB to only detect ubuntu.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have recently decided to switch to linux as my primary OS. I currently have Windows XP installed on the larger partition on my machine. Is there a way that I can delete the XP partition, or at least re-allocate the majority of my space over to the Ubuntu side without reinstalling?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI was trying to remove my windows partition using the live CD. While Windows no longer works on my system, GParted shows that I still have 40 gb of unallocated space. Have I not properly occupied the space left after I removed the Windows partition.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have ubuntu installed as my main operating system with a separate home partition, I also have windows 7 here, although I haven't used it since I installed it. I was planning on using it a bit more, since I'm getting a bored of ubuntu, so I thought I'd get a little variation Anyway, I have this separate home partition (ext4) formatted, that I logically can't access from windows. So I thought I'd make a "shared" partition (NTFS) with my files on it, so I could access them from both ubuntu and windows. Now, can I revert to having my home partition on my Ubuntu partition, or do I have to reinstall or something?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to Dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu. I have Ubuntu now. I'm trying to remove space from the Ubuntu partition(Active) but, it won't allow me to remove space from active partitions. I have 11GB Free according to GParted, yet during the installation it displays only 8MB Free. Oh, and I'm trying to install Windows XP through VirtualBox. Is that possible through the install CD? I've been searching and haven't seen anything about it.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a hard disk that I would like to completely remove UBUNTU from. There is no other OS on it. UBUNTU is on all of the HD no unused partitions that I can see or other windows system here at all. I would like to completely remove UBUNTU and remove GRUB also. and be able to use this HDD for a windows system. Most of the threads I have read here in the forum relate to removing ubuntu from a dual OS HDD . There is talk of using partition magic or other utility to remove or change the partitions,but most of them are about a dual OS system, whereas I have an HDD with only ubuntu on it. Does UBUNTU have an uninstall program that I can download? Does partition magic remove the Ubuntu OS? Grub?
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen I installed Ubuntu on my system (a year or so ago) I forgot to add a BIOS Boot Partition. This is something of a problem considering that the partition type for my 2TB drive is GPT. Hence, whenever grub is updated I get a warning:
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/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!.
/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and its use is discouraged..
Installation finished. No error reported.
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If so, what is the rough sequence of commands to create the partition (without disturbing what is already there) and then setting it as a BIOS boot partition.
I just bought a new external 1 TB HP hard drive that came with two partitions.One larger for storage and another 700 MB partition called hplauncher as a sub-file of what shows as a CD drive called HP virtual CD 4607 which held files for windows automatic back up. Which I don't need.Both the CD and launcher drives do not allow for deletion or formatting. The larger drive does.I am viewing it in the Palimpsest Disk Utility that cam with my Ubuntu 9.10 clean install.
View 8 Replies View Relatedi m mounting one ext4 partition onto some folder inside /home, have added things on fstab but now i dont want this thing to be listed on the desktop or on the places menu. i m using karmic.i have checked gconf-edit but
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