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pedrocortez
May 3rd, 2010, 10:24 AM
Hi

I have an old Pentium IV 1.8 running Ubuntu Studio 8.04 very happily indeed.

However its a multiboot machine with 1) XP ( never gets used ) , 2) Ubuntu Hardy - now upgraded to Lucid, 3) Ubuntu Studio 8.04 ( mostly used ) , and 4) finally 10.04 Ubuntu Studio recently installed.

The problem is
1) the Hardy partition which I upgraded to Lucid is not behaving well - no sound or video after trying LOADS of things I know to have worked before.
2) The XP never gets used so I'd like to remove it fully but still keep a Multiboot Ubuntu system,
3) I absolutely want to keep UStudio 8.04 version but delete all other partitions and try installing Ubuntu 10.04 from a fresh install.

Ive backed up my Home folder from Ubuntu Studio and my original Hardy partitions so I'm good to go.

How do I kill everything except Studio 8.04 partition and use the fresh space to install 10.04 Studio afresh ?

Can I do this with Gparted at 10.04 fresh install ?

All advice very much welcomed

Rgds
Pete