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PsyclonJohn
April 30th, 2011, 01:05 AM
Hello,

For the past few years, I've been duel booting my PC with Windows Vista and Ubuntu, and for some weird unknown reason Windows Vista won't even boot up pass the update screen... so I want to get rid of it.

Every tutorial I find says put the ubuntu cd in, and press install, but my computer isn't detecting the cd at start up, so is there any other ways I can remove windows without (or another way to load the cd)? I can't access Windows at all, so.. I won't be able to do anything about that.

Thanks!

mörgæs
April 30th, 2011, 01:11 AM
You can run Gparted from Ubuntu and delete the Windows partition(s).

PsyclonJohn
April 30th, 2011, 01:43 AM
Thanks for the reply, but I was able to remove it by going into the F12 settings (choosing CD Drive) during boot up. I'm having a bit of a graphical issue now, but I'm sure I'll figure out a fix for that.

PsyclonJohn
April 30th, 2011, 05:44 AM
You can run Gparted from Ubuntu and delete the Windows partition(s).

Actually, I think that would have been a lot easier! I wish I would have read your post before I went off venturing through the Dell boot menu. I just spent about 5 hours installing 10.04 upgrading to 10.10 then to 11.04. Everything went smoothly though!

mörgæs
April 30th, 2011, 10:27 AM
Good, please mark the thread 'solved'.

PsyclonJohn
May 2nd, 2011, 04:01 AM
Good, please mark the thread 'solved'.

To be honest, I have no idea how to change that.

Quackers
May 2nd, 2011, 04:15 AM
Use the Thread Tools (in red) near the top of the page :-)