wipe and clean hard drive

[drew einhorn]

Do it the easy way, instead.

Download and burn a copy of the latest stable gparted live cd
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Drew Einhorn