Hi all, I have one question. I need to remove cent OS completely from my hard disk. I have installed windows 7 also. Total size is 320 GB. For windows 270 and for cent OS 70 GB. How to remove cent OS and allocate that space to windows7?
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Jump to PostSimple enough.
1) Reinstall the Windows MBR (master boot record).
2) Use fdisk to remove the Linux partition.
3) Use the Windows disk manager to merge the partitions.Since this will change the system signature pretty significantly, Windows will have to re-authenticate itself with Microsoft on the next …
Jump to PostIsn't it sufficient to remove CentOS partition and to resize Win 7 one with Win 7 Disk Management tool?
No, because CentOS (and other Linux distros) replace the windows MBR/bootloader with an alternative bootloader like Grub or Grub2. So simply removing the CentOS partition and resizing the Windows 7 partition …
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