Adding Reply Topic Uninstalling Debian Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post yoshiness Posted at 9:11 pm on June 3, 2009 Is anyone familiar on how to uninstall it without damaging my hard drive, formatting, etc.? I love Linux, I truly do, but I just hate Debian. I'd like to get 40 GB back to use for Windows.

Replies anonomouse Posted at 12:56 am on June 30, 2009 Use the Gparted livecd (I trust you can figure out how to use it). Delete your Debian partition (make sure you know which one it is) and resize your windows partition to fill the rest of the hard drive. espresso8097 Posted at 11:03 pm on June 3, 2009 You delete partition, make sure it is free space.  Then use a partitioning tool (GParted works) to resize the partition to the full size. Never been able to get Debian to work out well for me, more of a Fedora person. Sector Corrupt Posted at 10:21 pm on June 3, 2009 So wait, are you trying to reclaim the entire space Debian was filling? since any method of reclaiming your space will really have sort of poor results if you don't just back up the data on the Debian partition and delete it. I've not actually used Debian, but I've used Debian based systems(aka Ubuntu(the shame, I know, noobtastic, but it's easy to use when I'm not using Arch)), what exactly is it about Debian you hate? so it goes Posted at 9:31 pm on June 3, 2009 Then yeah, so far as my knowledge goes, you can delete the Debian files while in a livecd and keep what you need to keep. If your linux partition is formatted to ext3 or ext2, which I assume it probably is, you may need to go to great lengths to make Windows read and write to it. There are some utilities available that let Windows do this, but I've had sketchy results with every one I've used. yoshiness Posted at 9:17 pm on June 3, 2009 Quote: from so it goes at 11:15 pm on June 3, 2009 Easiest option is probably formatting, but I would assume you can simply load a livecd of some kind and delete everything, depending on how you have your drive partitioned. I have Debian on 1 partition, and Windows on another. Don't suggest formatting. I have WAY too much to back up, and not enough storage to do so. so it goes Posted at 9:15 pm on June 3, 2009 Easiest option is probably formatting, but I would assume you can simply load a livecd of some kind and delete everything, depending on how you have your drive partitioned. All 6 previous replies displayed.