Removing Vista in Favour of Ubuntu

[Michael Sotnikov]

Sam Albers:
> Hi there. After fruitless searching over the interweb I am turning here. 
> I am going to install Ubuntu but I would also like to remove Vista. Can 
> anyone suggest the best way of going about this? I understand how to 
> install Ubuntu but I can't seem to figure out how to remove Vista. I 
> have a new laptop so it actually contains very few files so wiping the 
> system clean is definitely an option. Should I install Ubuntu before or 
> after I wipe the Vista out of my life? Any links or advice would be much 
> appreciated. Thanks!
> 
> Sam
> 
> "Last November, an Iowa voter asked if he, unlike Bill Clinton 
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/bill_clinton/index.html?inline=nyt-per>, 
> had inhaled. Mr. Obama looked puzzled. 'I never understood that line,' 
> he said. 'The point was to inhale.'"
> 


During ubuntu installation you can fully rewrite partition tables. As 
result vista'll gone.
But I recommend you
- make vista recovery disks (if anyday something go wrong)
- do not delete vista. Yep! I recommend it. just leave it very small 
size on your hard drive. Cause If you decide to update firmware, for 
example - you will need vista. And on other hands - there is no 
guarantee that everything on ubuntu will be great with your hardware 
(for example, on my laptop before firmware update - cpu dynamic 
frequency didn't work)

Good luck!