wipe and clean hard drive

[Karl F. Larsen]

Brian McKee wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:59 PM, John Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net> wrote:
>   
>> We have here a  laptop 100 gb hard drive, with windows vista, ubuntu,
>> linux mint ......
>> When the computer opens up it shows.
>> The hard drive is divided into dev/hda/
>> dev/hda1 nfts 10487 mb unknown
>> devhda2 nfts 62560 mb  32799 mb
>> dev/hda3 nfts   3974 mb  3200 mb
>> dev/hda10 ext 3 2969 mb 2000mb
>> dev/hda 11  swap 205 mb  0 mb
>> dev/hda 6 ext 3 6053 mb  3200 mb
>> dev/hda  7  swap  328 mb 0mb
>> dev/hda 5 nfts 7084 mb 3200mb
>> dev/hda 8 ext 3 6020 mb 3200 mb
>> dev/hda 9 swap 328 mb 0 mb
>> How do we clean this up and have vista and ubuntu within vista
>>     
>
> Install Vista and tell it to use the whole hard drive.  Then install
> ubuntu inside your chosen virtualization software.
>
> Brian
>
>   
    But before you try doing the above you must fix the 100 Gb drive. 
What you show is not correct. You do not show /dev/hda4 which allows all 
the other partitions above 4 to exist.

    If you want just one partition use the windows partition to delete 
all those partitions.

Karl


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