deleting and os

[James Takac]

On Monday 13 August 2007 09:05:18 Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Sunday 12 August 2007, James Takac wrote:
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > Have a friend that I have finally got used to Ubuntu. He's sick and tired
> > of having to fix windows and this time it would need a complete reinstall
> > to fix. So what he wants is to get rid of windows entirely (sys is
> > currently set to dual boot) but I don't think a complete reinstall of
> > Ubuntu is necessary as he thinks it to be. Can I in effect just redo the
> > current windows partion and format it ext3 or so and just modify the
> > entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst. Or will I need the live cd to boot from
> > and the re setup grub from there?
> >
> > James
>
> If he is currently able to dual-boot.... (Using what?  grub or the Windows
> loader?)   then yes, you should be able to reformat the windows partitions
> and use it for whatever.
>
> Careful of splitting it up into pieces because that might upset the
> partition numbering,     If he's using grub as a loader, than it should be
> pretty easy because grub will still be there.   If some type of Windows
> loader, that could be a different story.

Hi Bruce

Grub is the current loader on his sys. The other os being winxp which is 
currently unusable, i.e. screen blanks out about twice a sec making it 
unusable. Prob a virus (though not detected) or just something got trashed. 
Either way both are sick of fixing xp on his sys (every other week no matter 
what steps are taken to protect the windows side, he's not very computer 
literate so has prob inadvertently okayed a nasty). We orginally ran the 
ubuntu live cd to figure out if it was a hardware or software issue the the 
screen blanking. Since no prob in ubuntu that indicated software issue. So 
he's finally going ubuntu only

James