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    Partition Manager to change ext3 partition back to NTFS

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Sub-D, Oct 19, 2007.

  1. Sub-D

    Sub-D Notebook Evangelist

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    Really the title of the post should give a good idea of what I am looking for. I'm looking to completely remove Linux from my laptop and I have already made the first step in that direction by restoring the MBR. Now I would like my free space back. I had thought that I would be able to use my Kubuntu live disk to return the partition back to NTFS but the option wasn't available and the Live CD failed to run the formatting procedure for FAT32. I'm going to try and dig out my Ubuntu Live CD (heres to hoping I brought it with me!) but failing that, what are good free partitioning programs on Windows that would both see the ext3 file type and allow me to change it?

    Thanks for any and all suggestions!
     
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  2. chimpanzee

    chimpanzee Notebook Virtuoso

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    can you just delete that partition, i.e. return the free space ?
     
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  3. Sredni Vashtar

    Sredni Vashtar Notebook Evangelist

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    Have you tried Vista partition tool?
    You could select the partition and tell it to format it into NTFS.
    another option is to simply remove the partition and recreate an NTFS one.

    I assume you have nothing on it.
     
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    The problem I was mainly having was that Vista couldn't "see" the ext3 formatted partition and Linux swap (unless I was doing something wrong). Luckily I found my Ubuntu Live CD and managed to delete the partitions associated with Ubuntu from there and replace with one NTFS partition. Thanks for the help though! :D
     
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