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Zipdaman12
September 13th, 2011, 05:22 PM
I know this is a famous question, but I am a bit confused still.

I have installed Ubuntu as a replacement for windows, but installed it as a dual boot (from the ubuntu installer) in case I needed anything from Windows, or couldn't figure out how to get everything working in Ubuntu.
Good news is I have figured it all out and don't need Windows any more. I would like to remove windows, but I am having problems.

From within gparted, I have 2 NTFS partitions, sda1 and sda2
sda1 is listed as a boot partition and labeled as system reserved
sda2 is unlabeled and not a boot partition.

This is my fdisk info:

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00090a0b

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 24322 195256320 7 HPFS/NTFS


any and all help is always appreciated.

zip

MG&TL
September 13th, 2011, 05:32 PM
Backup files, reinstall, is the easy way. Less easy way is to boot from a partitioning tool (gparted live cd?) of some sort and use that.

mörgæs
September 13th, 2011, 05:58 PM
Using Gparted is by far the easy way. Please post a screen shot of the partitions as seen through Gparted.

YesWeCan
September 13th, 2011, 08:38 PM
What problems are you having? The fdisk output only shows 2 NTFS partitions and no linux partitions. Are you using Wubi?

Blasphemist
September 14th, 2011, 12:20 AM
If you could download and run this script I think we could be more sure of our recommendations. http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/

Please post the results within code tags to make it more readable. This will tell us the detail of your partitioning and configuration for boot now.