[SOLVED] How to remove windows without reinstalling arch

RounakDutta · 2022-03-23 16:48:36

I dualboot windows with arch and now I want to remove windows without reinstalling arch. How can I do that ?

Last edited by RounakDutta (2022-03-23 17:01:39)

Trilby · 2022-03-23 16:52:50

You're going to need to elaborate on what has you confused. To remove windows without reinstalling arch you simply remove windows. As long as you don't try to reinstall arch after that, you've successfully removed windows without reinstalling arch.

I gather your question must be more of the flavor of how to remove windows without doing damage to your arch install. But this would beg the question of what kind of damage you think could occur? Is this an efi system and do the two OSs share the same efi partition? If so, leave that alone (but you can remove the windows-specific entries). Other than that ... I'm not sure what the hesitation could be.

Or are you rather asking about the best ways to reclaim the disk space formerly used by windows and put it to use for arch?

In any case, more information about your system (partitioning scheme and boot loader / manager) would be needed.

Last edited by Trilby (2022-03-23 16:54:55)

RounakDutta · 2022-03-23 16:55:55

Trilby wrote:

You're going to need to elaborate on what has you confused. To remove windows without reinstalling arch you simply remove windows. As long as you don't try to reinstall arch after that, you've successfully removed windows without reinstalling arch.
I gather your question must be more of the flavor of how to remove windows without doing damage to your arch install. But this would beg the question of what kind of damage you think could occur? Is this an efi system and do the two OSs share the same efi partition? If so, leave that alone (but you can remove the windows-specific entries). Other than that ... I'm not sure what the hesitation could be.

So I can use fdisk to remove all windows partitions like "Microsoft reserved" , " Microsoft basic data " and other important microsoft partitions (I will not remove the efi partition though) ?

Trilby · 2022-03-23 16:57:15

Yes. So long as you really want windows gone and have no personal data you want to keep there (that hasn't been backed up or copied to the arch partitions).

RounakDutta · 2022-03-23 16:58:51

Trilby wrote:

Yes. So long as you really want windows gone and have no personal data you want to keep there (that hasn't been backed up or copied to the arch partitions).

Oh ok! Thanks a lot!! I am flagging the post as SOLVED.

Last edited by RounakDutta (2022-03-23 16:59:07)

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[SOLVED] How to remove windows without reinstalling arch

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