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Mar 9, 2010

My Ubuntu partition is just about out of memory, and I need to do some cleaning of the windows.I couldn't find a lot on here (maybe I wasn't using the right terms), and when I looked on google it seemed like the only results I found were from people that wanted to remove linux from windows.What I'd like to do is create a very, very small partition for windows for when I need it (burning MP3s to CDA and my printer only).I wouldn't mind re-installing windows and starting from scratch (I have all my software backed up) and then installing Ubuntu a backed up version of Ubuntu. Except I can't get Clonezilla to install for the life of me after several attempts.So is their any (hopefully easy) way to clean up windows without going to extremes?

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