I have installed Windows XP in one partition and then I have installed Fedora11 in another partition. Now I need to remove Linux partition and add that disk space to windows partition. How to do this?
Please help me out.
Thank you.
Kishore
On 27 March 2010 14:17, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.koppula@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed Windows XP in one partition and then I have installed Fedora11 in another partition. Now I need to remove Linux partition and add that disk space to windows partition. How to do this?
Ask on a Windows Mailing List.
-- Sam
2010/3/27 Sam Sharpe lists.redhat@samsharpe.net:
On 27 March 2010 14:17, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.koppula@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed Windows XP in one partition and then I have installed Fedora11 in another partition. Now I need to remove Linux partition and add that disk space to windows partition. How to do this?
Ask on a Windows Mailing List.
-- Sam
Nice tip! It would be even better to provide him a useful link. Something like this: http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 18:38 +0300, Hiisi wrote:
2010/3/27 Sam Sharpe lists.redhat@samsharpe.net:
On 27 March 2010 14:17, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.koppula@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed Windows XP in one partition and then I have installed Fedora11 in another partition. Now I need to remove Linux partition and add that disk space to windows partition. How to do this?
Ask on a Windows Mailing List.
-- Sam
Nice tip! It would be even better to provide him a useful link. Something like this: http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
Yes, like that's really going to help. The OP says he needs to expand his WinXP partition. He didn't say why he needs to, or that he's giving up on Linux, or that he thinks Windows is better. This kind of brush-off does the free software community no favours.
To the OP: I believe Windows has a "resize partition" function under the Accessories/System menu. I'm not sure if it's present on XP or if it will do what you want, but it's a place to start. Otherwise, you can certainly use gparted to do this.
poc
On 27 March 2010 15:58, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 18:38 +0300, Hiisi wrote:
2010/3/27 Sam Sharpe lists.redhat@samsharpe.net:
On 27 March 2010 14:17, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.koppula@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed Windows XP in one partition and then I have installed Fedora11 in another partition. Now I need to remove Linux partition and add that disk space to windows partition. How to do this?
Ask on a Windows Mailing List.
Nice tip! It would be even better to provide him a useful link. Something like this: http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
Yes, like that's really going to help. The OP says he needs to expand his WinXP partition. He didn't say why he needs to, or that he's giving up on Linux, or that he thinks Windows is better. This kind of brush-off does the free software community no favours.
Correct.
However, as this list if for the Fedora Community, a significant proportion of which don't use Windows, it is not the best place to seek advice in this matter - A Windows-related List or Forum would be. I don't tend to expend a lot of words pointing out the bleeding obvious.
-- Sam
On 03/27/2010 11:58 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 18:38 +0300, Hiisi wrote:
2010/3/27 Sam Sharpe lists.redhat@samsharpe.net:
On 27 March 2010 14:17, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.koppula@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed Windows XP in one partition and then I have installed Fedora11 in another partition. Now I need to remove Linux partition and add that disk space to windows partition. How to do this?
Ask on a Windows Mailing List.
-- Sam
Nice tip! It would be even better to provide him a useful link. Something like this: http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
Yes, like that's really going to help. The OP says he needs to expand his WinXP partition. He didn't say why he needs to, or that he's giving up on Linux, or that he thinks Windows is better. This kind of brush-off does the free software community no favours.
To the OP: I believe Windows has a "resize partition" function under the Accessories/System menu. I'm not sure if it's present on XP or if it will do what you want, but it's a place to start. Otherwise, you can certainly use gparted to do this.
I've not had to mess with Windows partitions much...but I don't recall the Linux tools being much good at fiddling with NTFS.
It would be my suggestion to get a copy of "Partition Magic". Its a good Windows utility that can be had for a "good price" if you know where to look.
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 16:07 +0000, Sam Sharpe wrote:
On 27 March 2010 15:58, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 18:38 +0300, Hiisi wrote:
2010/3/27 Sam Sharpe lists.redhat@samsharpe.net:
On 27 March 2010 14:17, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.koppula@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed Windows XP in one partition and then I have installed Fedora11 in another partition. Now I need to remove Linux partition and add that disk space to windows partition. How to do this?
Ask on a Windows Mailing List.
Nice tip! It would be even better to provide him a useful link. Something like this: http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
Yes, like that's really going to help. The OP says he needs to expand his WinXP partition. He didn't say why he needs to, or that he's giving up on Linux, or that he thinks Windows is better. This kind of brush-off does the free software community no favours.
Correct.
However, as this list if for the Fedora Community, a significant proportion of which don't use Windows, it is not the best place to seek advice in this matter - A Windows-related List or Forum would be. I don't tend to expend a lot of words pointing out the bleeding obvious.
I have no argument with that. My reply was mainly directed at the second responder.
poc
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 00:27 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/27/2010 11:58 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 18:38 +0300, Hiisi wrote:
2010/3/27 Sam Sharpe lists.redhat@samsharpe.net:
On 27 March 2010 14:17, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.koppula@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed Windows XP in one partition and then I have installed Fedora11 in another partition. Now I need to remove Linux partition and add that disk space to windows partition. How to do this?
Ask on a Windows Mailing List.
-- Sam
Nice tip! It would be even better to provide him a useful link. Something like this: http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS.html
Yes, like that's really going to help. The OP says he needs to expand his WinXP partition. He didn't say why he needs to, or that he's giving up on Linux, or that he thinks Windows is better. This kind of brush-off does the free software community no favours.
To the OP: I believe Windows has a "resize partition" function under the Accessories/System menu. I'm not sure if it's present on XP or if it will do what you want, but it's a place to start. Otherwise, you can certainly use gparted to do this.
I've not had to mess with Windows partitions much...but I don't recall the Linux tools being much good at fiddling with NTFS.
The OP doesn't say his partition is NTFS, but of course it might be.
It would be my suggestion to get a copy of "Partition Magic". Its a good Windows utility that can be had for a "good price" if you know where to look.
Sure.
poc
On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 00:27 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
I've not had to mess with Windows partitions much...but I don't recall the Linux tools being much good at fiddling with NTFS.
It would be my suggestion to get a copy of "Partition Magic". Its a good Windows utility that can be had for a "good price" if you know where to look.
---- you should probably remove Partition Magic from your recommended list of utilities since it is essentially:
- abandoned software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PartitionMagic
- incapable of dealing with ext4
actually, the system tools in Linux are pretty good at dealing with NTFS these days. In reality, you can just 'format' a partition in Windows to repurpose it from Linux to Windows or use either the Windows or Linux versions of fdisk to remove Linux partitions.
Craig
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I have installed Windows XP in one partition and then I have installed Fedora11 in another partition. Now I need to remove Linux partition and add that disk space to windows partition. How to do this?
Please help me out.
You need to provide more information on your configuration? 1. Is the boot loader the windows ntldr or is the system using grub? 2. What is the partition layout? Is the XP on the first partitoin or which? With Fedora, you should have a boot and a root partition.
I just help a student go in the other direction. He had installed linux on his system, but has moved to using more linux, so wanted to reduce the size of windows and increase the size of linux. Used a Live CD with gparted to resize the partitions. I like the parted majgic CD.
If the boot process is grub, you will need to reinstall a XP MBR of be forced to leave the boot partition, and change the default to Windows.
So, more info is needed.
Thank you.
Kishore
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On 27 Mar 2010 at 9:47, Craig White wrote:
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On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 00:27 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
I've not had to mess with Windows partitions much...but I don't recall the Linux tools being much good at fiddling with NTFS.
It would be my suggestion to get a copy of "Partition Magic". Its a good Windows utility that can be had for a "good price" if you know where to look.
you should probably remove Partition Magic from your recommended list of utilities since it is essentially:
abandoned software http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PartitionMagic
incapable of dealing with ext4
I believe the original message said it was Fedora 11, which I believe didn't use ext4 or have it as an option.
actually, the system tools in Linux are pretty good at dealing with NTFS these days. In reality, you can just 'format' a partition in Windows to repurpose it from Linux to Windows or use either the Windows or Linux versions of fdisk to remove Linux partitions.
I've used the gparted with a number of live cds, and the ntfsprog do a very good job supporting ntfs.
My G4L project has ntfsclone and supports ntfs, but no director resizing.
Craig
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I have installed Windows XP in one partition and then I have installed Fedora11 in another partition. Now I need to remove Linux partition and add that disk space to windows partition. How to do this?
Please help me out.
You need to provide more information on your configuration? 1. Is the boot loader the windows ntldr or is the system using grub? 2. What is the partition layout? Is the XP on the first partitoin or which? With Fedora, you should have a boot and a root partition.
I just help a student go in the other direction. He had installed linux on his system, but has moved to using more linux, so wanted to reduce the size of windows and increase the size of linux. Used a Live CD with gparted to resize the partitions. I like the parted majgic CD.
If the boot process is grub, you will need to reinstall a XP MBR of be forced to leave the boot partition, and change the default to Windows.
So, more info is needed.
Thank you.
Kishore
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On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko@greshko.com wrote:
On 03/27/2010 11:58 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 18:38 +0300, Hiisi wrote:
2010/3/27 Sam Sharpe lists.redhat@samsharpe.net:
On 27 March 2010 14:17, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA rkbabu.koppula@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed Windows XP in one partition and then I have installed Fedora11 in another partition. Now I need to remove Linux partition and add that disk space to windows partition. How to do this?
snip
It would be my suggestion to get a copy of "Partition Magic". Its a good Windows utility that can be had for a "good price" if you know where to look.
Actually Partition Magic is commercial and proprietary - however a good option for messing with partitions is to google for "PartedMagic" or go direct to http://partedmagic.com/
Parted Magic is linux and free to obtain and use. It will deal with most partition types including ntfs and will shrink or add or change them as you need to. Almost all the messing that I do with partitions ahead of installing Fedora on a Windows box is done with this excellent distro.
Download the iso and burn to CD or use the usb iso and follow the instructions to put it on a usbkey (if the machine in question can boot to usb) - Then once it loads it stays in memory and has a number of useful facilities including a partition editor that has a nice graphic display (actually it is parted but on the disk are also fdisk and cfdisk etc as alternative partition editors). It is pretty intuitive to use.
I've not had to mess with Windows partitions much...but I don't recall the Linux tools being much good at fiddling with NTFS.
It would be my suggestion to get a copy of "Partition Magic". Its a good Windows utility that can be had for a "good price" if you know where to look.
I am sadly disagreeing with the above advice :(
The linux tools have greatly improved. The OP has many choices
1) use the "Manage" options directly from windows and resize the disk there using Microsoft's own tools.
2) use Gparted LiveCD/SystemRescueCD/PartedMagic/ plain old cfdisk from any linux live cd and delete the partition then extend it like Patrick and others have suggested
3) Your own solution(pay some $ for Partition Magic or get a trial copy, ...?)
I would take option (2) most of the time if not all the time :) The linux tools are getting better and better with each release (there are exceptions of course^{1})
Regards,
Antonio
^{1} bugs with Gparted 0.5.2 or 0.5.1 not correctly doing something with disk operations, but older version work(s,ed)
On 03/28/2010 04:53 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
I've not had to mess with Windows partitions much...but I don't recall the Linux tools being much good at fiddling with NTFS.
It would be my suggestion to get a copy of "Partition Magic". Its a good Windows utility that can be had for a "good price" if you know where to look.
I am sadly disagreeing with the above advice :(
No need to be sad... As I said, I've not worked with Windows in a long time. Nice to see so many folks willing to correct me.
The linux tools have greatly improved. The OP has many choices
use the "Manage" options directly from windows and resize the disk there using Microsoft's own tools.
use Gparted LiveCD/SystemRescueCD/PartedMagic/ plain old cfdisk from any linux live cd and delete the partition then extend it like Patrick and others have suggested
Your own solution(pay some $ for Partition Magic or get a trial copy, ...?)
The last time I got my copy it didn't cost me anything. I only needed to use it once, about 3 years ago. I just knew where to look. ;-)
I would take option (2) most of the time if not all the time :) The linux tools are getting better and better with each release (there are exceptions of course^{1})
Sounds like a good idea. Hope I can remember it if I should need it in the future.
Regards,
Antonio
^{1} bugs with Gparted 0.5.2 or 0.5.1 not correctly doing something with disk operations, but older version work(s,ed)
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 19:47 +0530, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
I have installed Windows XP in one partition and then I have installed Fedora11 in another partition. Now I need to remove Linux partition and add that disk space to windows partition. How to do this?
The first obvious thing that springs to mind was how did you partition the drive in the first place? You should be able to use the same tool. At the very least, it should be able to remove the Linux partition, leaving it as free space for Windows partitioning tools to add to the existing Windows partition.
Though, Windows should be able to handle this all by itself. Just remove the /other/ partition used by Linux, and expand the Windows one. Windows doesn't need to be able to read what's in the Linux partition to get rid of it.
On 03/27/2010 10:24 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
I believe the original message said it was Fedora 11, which I believe didn't use ext4 or have it as an option.
Actually, Fedora 11 had Ext4 as the default and it was introduced first as a option in Fedora 9
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11
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