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cant make windows 7 overwrite all partitions
Name: tylercc Date: July 1, 2009 at 10:37:51 Pacific OS: Windows 7 Subcategory: Installation
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hi i recently was dual booting with vista and ubuntu now i want just windows 7 when i ran the installation disk it would olnly let me put it in one drive but i want it over everthing so ubuntu and vista are gone.ive already installed windows 7 and i only have 15gb when in total theres 80 vista had 40 ubuntu had 40 how do i get all of windows 7 in one?
You need to delete ALL partitions, wipe the MBR, repartition, reformat, then reinstall Win7.
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Response Number 2
Name: tylercc Date: July 1, 2009 at 12:09:08 Pacific
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sry but im not that great with computers if u can post a step by step action that would be great!
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Response Number 3
Name: anmor Date: July 1, 2009 at 14:26:39 Pacific
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If you want to use the whole drive as one partition, use the W7 dvd to boot with, start the instalation, choose custom option, next select disk tools/managment, delete all partitions one by one, when done create new partition using all disk space, then continue W7 instalation.
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Response Number 4
Name: btk1w1 Date: July 2, 2009 at 03:50:25 Pacific
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Have you tried using the windows 7 partition manager to extend the partition 7 is on to use up the whole drive?
I'm not sure if this will work, but it is worth a try before doing an OS reinstall.
You would then need to remove all other boot options (except 7) from the boot loader though.
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