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maze_mani

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Registered: 2010-07-01

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How to remove Win7 from my Dual-Boot?

Hello,

i have a notebook with an Win7 and an Arch Installation.
My partition layout is: [Win7] -[ Win7Pagefile] - [Arch64 / (everything)] -[Swap] - [Datapartion with all the restGB]
Now that ive switched completely to Arch i didn need win7 anymore.
How can i remove the Win7 partitions so that arch is in front in the faster areas of hdd?
Even better: can i now split the arch partiotion into separate /boot, /home, etc.?
Hope you understand my problem.

Thank you!

nixpunk

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Registered: 2009-11-23

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Re: How to remove Win7 from my Dual-Boot?

I strongly suggest reading up on some things first to help you better understand what you need to do.  This info should help start you off on the right direction.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GParted

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Re: How to remove Win7 from my Dual-Boot?

Best advice I can give you: BACKUP your entire Arch64 partition to another drive.  Do the same w/ your data partition.  Nuke the ENTIRE notebook HDD, repartition it to your liking and copy back.  DON'T mess with expanding/shrinking partitions.

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maze_mani

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Registered: 2010-07-01

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Re: How to remove Win7 from my Dual-Boot?

I strongly suggest reading up on some things first to help you better understand what you need to do.  This info should help start you off on the right direction.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GParted

I know GParted .... it had f****d my entire drive earlier. I only trust my paid Acronis Disk Director, but it dosnt handle my ext4 correctly, so it is no option for moving my Arch partition.
Grub2 is on my System the Bootloader, so i know there must be sometething been edited in the grub.cfg after partitioning for proper boot.

When i delete the Win7 Partitons under Windows and move the Arch in front, are the SD*-Numbers in Arch changing??
So, when i delete tbothz win7 partitions Grub2 shouls still be working as ive installed into MBR. I think then i only have to change the sda1... for a succesful boot?
Dumb thing ia: Win7 are primary partitions (both), then all others come in a big logical one.

Best advice I can give you: BACKUP your entire Arch64 partition to another drive.  Do the same w/ your data partition.  Nuke the ENTIRE notebook HDD, repartition it to your liking and copy back.  DON'T mess with expanding/shrinking partitions.

Having no Backup possibility due to the 2.5'' hdd in the notebook!

nixpunk

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Registered: 2009-11-23

Posts: 271

Re: How to remove Win7 from my Dual-Boot?

If you move partitions, the partition table will be updated and partition designations will change accordingly.  You should have a rescue CD handy if you make partition changes, so that you can boot up with the disc, verify partitions with fdisk/cfdisk, and update grub.

maze_mani

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Registered: 2010-07-01

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Re: How to remove Win7 from my Dual-Boot?

Ok, i try to delete the first 2 primary Win7 partitions, better i merge them to a 100MB /boot as prmary on my HDD.
Due to i have my Acronis only on a SD-Card-USB with no Optical drive or any other possibility to connect my 2.5'' hdd, how do i change it for the new bootorder?
Ive installed Grub2 to the MBR. Is it enough to edit (probably with a live cd) the /boot/grub..-file? and changing the new sd* Numbers?

And what about to split my Arch fom my now /root(everything) to a /boot /home / et?
Same the only the sd* in the grub matters?