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I've had Ubuntu dual booted with Windows XP for awhile now and I think it's time to get rid of windows. How do I do this correctly so I don't mess up my hard drive?

Loagn
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The general process for this process is:

  • Ensure you have all of your files backed up
  • Open GParted
  • Identify your Windows partitions, often they will show as being mounted under /media or in a custom location if you specified so in your /etc/fstab.
    You can also match their sizes up to what you expect from what Windows reports
  • Delete the partitions by right-clicking on there listings
  • Expand your Ubuntu partion (will be mounted as /) by right-clicking it

We can provide better directions if we know more about your setup.
Supplying us with sudo fdisk -l will allow us to try to identify your windows partition better

Huckle
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Open the disk utility and find your windows partition format it to ext4 partition enter image description here

Then open the the terminal and type

sudo update-grub
Tachyons
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