Tuesday, June 17, 2014

How to delete Windows OS from Fedora OS?

In Fedora OS, you will be able to see the Windows partition mounted in file manager. File manager is nothing but the place where you store your files. Let me show my file manager and the mounted Windows partition in file manager.



Hope you can locate Windows partition in you system running Fedora. So to remove or format Windows OS from Fedora, you can simply delete all the contents in Windows partition. However it won't be as effective as formatting. So lets try the formatting option.

Steps to format Windows OS from Fedora

Open the Disks tool from activities. To open this simply press Windows Key in your keyboard and type disks in the search bar. If you laptop doesn't have Windows Key, then move the mouse over Activities and in the search bar type disks.

Disks is the tool, using it you are going to delete Windows OS. Be careful while doing this. Because you may end up with deleting Linux partition. It means you are simply going to lose your files. In this tool you can see the partition with format NTFS. It is the windows os storage format. If you have two partitions in Windows then it will show two blocks.

In my case I know that 185 GB block is the place where my Windows OS sits. So I simply click on it and then click on gear icon. It shows several option. You can find Format option there. This format option will delete all the file (including Windows OS) in that block.

How to find in which block my Windows OS sits?

Under devices in File Manager you can see your Windows partition. Click on the first partition, check whether it contains folder named Windows and Program Files. If this folder is there, then that is partition where you have installed Windows OS.

Warnings
Deleting Windows OS means you are going to delete all the paid software installed in Windows OS. So make sure you have all those CD and product key before doing this.

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