UBUNT 16 up and running. NOW TO DELETE WINDOWS 8 COMPLETELY!!!

Dean in Ventura · 10-03-2016, 10:38 AM

Hey guys. New to LINUX. You've helped me get up and running from a bootable USB drive. Love it. Love it. Love it.
I want to DELETE WINDOWS 8 from this HP for ever.
I'm confused. Can someone help me? Is it mouse clicks here and there and a few "deletes" or more involved??

DJM

hazel · 10-03-2016, 11:05 AM

Are you sure? If you are, the way I'd go about it would be to reformat the Windows partition with fsck.

Dean in Ventura · 10-03-2016, 11:16 AM

I could do that too. BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW. I can just knock the windows partition to like 2 per cent!

DavidMcCann · 10-03-2016, 11:31 AM

Personally, I'd keep Windows just in case I ever needed it. After all, you did pay for it when you bought the computer. Depending on whether you have BIOS or UEFI, look here
http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/201...ongside_8.html
http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/201...alongside.html

But if you want to remove Windows, the Ubuntu installer will do it for you. There's page called Installation Type that includes an Erase Disk option.

hazel · 10-03-2016, 11:33 AM

Better to leave it the size it is and then you can reuse it as a home partition. If you want a graphical tool to reformat it, install gparted.

This link will get you started.

yancek · 10-03-2016, 11:37 AM

If you are using UEFI with Ubuntu and windows you need to make sure you don't delete or format the EFI partition which is a FAT32 partition. Post the output of both or either of these commands here for more specific advice:

Code:

sudo fdisk -l
sudo parted -l

If you decide to remove windows completely, the link below is to the GParted Manual which explains anything you might want to do.

http://gparted.org/display-doc.php%3Fname%3Dhelp-manual

BW-userx · 10-03-2016, 12:20 PM

just wipe it then install linux ... during the install process .. its that simple

sundialsvcs · 10-03-2016, 12:42 PM

Personally, I wouldn't do that.

If the disk-drive in the enclosure is (as I expect) compatible with the one in the computer, I suggest that you simply open both of them up and swap the drives.

And then, y'know ... don't reformat the other one. Not yet... not yet...

rokytnji · 10-03-2016, 12:49 PM

With the price of ssd drives dropping.

I find it cheaper to buy a new ssd drive. Throw the Windows 10 Enterprise hard drive in the laptop bag. SSD is now cheaper than a Windows operating system.

Otherwise. Make sure to have a grub repair plan handy. Because when you delete Windows 8. There might be some " I deleted Windows 8 ,dual boot Ubuntu, and my computer won't boot with a grub error XXX". In your future.

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-uninsta...ting-508710422

scroll down to the page section

Quote:

Keep Linux and Remove Windows

important part

Code:

sudo update-grub

coltree · 10-03-2016, 09:24 PM

I'll go with BW-userx

****************** backup any data you want to keep ****************

clean install use whole hard drive

throw away your Windoze cds
never look back

BW-userx · 10-04-2016, 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by coltree

I'll go with BW-userx

****************** backup any data you want to keep ****************

clean install use whole hard drive

throw away your Windoze cds
never look back

just tp paly it safe .. slpit your partiton.

Code:

/ (for root and OS 5GB to whatever larger size your comfotable with. Mine is 20GB room for growth)
/home (users personal data)

that way id any situation comes about and you have to do a re-install, you will not losr your peprsonal data. during a re-install just assign mount points to root - format and /home DO NOT FORMAT

then disregaurd the message when you create you user again stating it is already there.

I don;'t use a swap .. I don't need it

PencilBob · 10-04-2016, 01:20 PM

If you decide to keep Windows 8, you can resize its partition downwards and up the partition for Linux. I'm new to Linux, but
you can use Partition Magic by Easeus under windows to do the trick. I have the free version - don't know why you'd want to buy/pay for the Pro version.

coltree · 10-04-2016, 08:37 PM

Many versions of Linux or BSD will give a default partition scheme for your complete hard drive using one or many partitions.

We use unix because it works, it is designed incorporating vast experience,
you can cut corners and sooner or later you'll find out why a certain feature is designed into unix
the swap is there for a reason, safest to use it.

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Partitioning

BW-userx · 10-04-2016, 08:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by coltree

Many versions of Linux or BSD will give a default partition scheme for your complete hard drive using one or many partitions.

We use unix because it works, it is designed incorporating vast experience,
you can cut corners and sooner or later you'll find out why a certain feature is designed into unix
the swap is there for a reason, safest to use it.

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Partitioning

me never reconmened not using a swap my system never utizlies it so I just stopped adding it. if I even noticed its need to have some swap space ~ revert to adding a swap file then turn it on.

cesarbergara · 10-08-2016, 01:07 PM

Hi. If you are newbie, the best idea is to use Linux an year before 'play' with System tools. You can modified boot method, change mbr, etc, and then you loose all the data in your machine.
It is easy to extract a MS system and create a backup (tgz) and put it in a DVD (like a backup, not liveCD) to restore it if you have a problem.
But you can use windows partition for data. An later, change from ntfs to ext.

Have a nice day.