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Removing a linux partition from a dual booted machine

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NaturalChiller

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I have a gateway machine with a dual boot: XP and RH 8.0. There is a windows partition, a linux partition, and a linux swap partition. I'd like to de-partition the drive such that I have one windows drive again. Is there a way to do this? thx
 

1. Boot with XP CD & go into Rescue mode, then fixmbr <device_name>.

2. Boot with a DOS/Win9.x boot disk & del Linux partition, then do a fdisk /mbr.
 
If you want the windows partition to take over the space of the linux partitions, you'll need to use a program that can non-destructively resize a partition. If it's fat32, you can use ranish partition manager ( http://www.ranish.com/part/ ) to delete and resize the partitions. You could also use parted, which should be on the redhat rescue CD (otherwise known as installation CD 1).

If the partition is NTFS, then you need to use the very latest version of parted with NTFS patches (included in the latest knoppix) or you need to buy partition magic.
 
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