So it's computer upgrade time for me! Yay!
Unfortunately, I have a question here that the Google seems to be failing me to answer, and I hope this is a stupid easy question to answer.
I currently run dual boot with WinXP and Ubuntu. I, however, don't spend as much time any more in Linux, and just wish to get rid of it, and use the hard drive it's on as a single Win7 partition.
Will Win7 see that partition and allow me to destroy it? Or will I need to find the Ubuntu disk, and remove it that way, so that when I load the Win7 disk it will be able to create a whole partition?
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Just like all other windows installs you can remove all existing partitions and combine them into a single and format it.
If it's anything like the XP installer (I haven't run it, but from what I hear, it's not very much like it. Shouldn't matter for this case) on the screen where it asks you where you want to install it, it should show all the partitions on the drive. From there you can delete the partitions and format the whole drive as one NTFS partition.
*Speaking of which, if you have any other drives in that system, remove them before doing the install. Windows can sometimes be a little silly about installing to the wrong drive, or making the wrong drive the master. It just saves headaches to make sure that only your target installation drive is in the system at install time.
But I'll give it a shot since it sounds like I won't have any issues destroying the partitions and completely redoing them.