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[ubuntu] Deleted Windows primary partition now what?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Ok I HAD a dual boot gateway laptop with windows vista on it. partitions primary restore 10gb primary windows 100gb logical ext4 ubuntu 40gb logical swap ubuntu 7gb I used only ubuntu because windows was probably infected. Ubuntu needed more space. So I thought about deleting windows and expanding linux partitions. I had no hd to backup...read on to see how stupid I am... :popcorn: Now I have deleted both windows partitions and grub says "grub rescue" I moved the ubuntu partition to the beginning of the drive. made it active and primary. no change and moved it (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 10/19/2012

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Hi everyone! First of all, sorry for my English. I got this problem and I hope you can help me :)

I want to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64 alongside with Windows 7.

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Ok, I had Windows 7 and Ubuntu installed on my Toshiba Satellite P755D. Ubuntu was my primary partition. That my pc booted to. I never used it, so I wanted that space on it back for windows 7. Well, I f*cked up, and when I deleted the partition, I forgot to make windows the active partition. Now, when I boot my pc it gives me the "Error: no such partition. Grub Rescue" crap.

I want to know is there any possible (and simple) way to delete my Windows partitions and extend my Ubuntu partitions.

I have 1 HDD 700 GB:

sda1 primary 100MB NTFS (Windows boot partition) sda2 primary 100GB NTFS (Windows 7 OS) sda3 primary 500GB NTFS (Windows data files) sda4 extended partition 98GB: sda6 ext4 94GB (Ubuntu 12.04) sda5 swap 4GB

My actual boot partition is sda1

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