I need help switching my OSes around....

[JoePro87]

Okay. I made a stupid mistake while dual booting Zorin and Windows 10. I ended up installing Zorin to my external hard drive (which I know, stupid idea). I need to put it on my SSD with Windows. How can I delete Zorin from my external hard drive?

[SCHISCHKA]

format the drive

[JoePro87]

2 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

format the drive

I kinda REALLY don't want to do that, as it is my backup drive, and is bigger than my other drives, so I have no way to copy everything off of it.

[SCHISCHKA]

2 minutes ago, JoePro87 said:

I kinda REALLY don't want to do that, as it is my backup drive, and is bigger than my other drives, so I have no way to copy everything off of it.

did you write Zorin over the data on your external drive?

[JoePro87]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

did you write Zorin over the data on your external drive?

No. It's a 3TB drive. There was a decent amount of free space on it.

[JoePro87]

Is there a way to delete just the OS partition, without totally wiping the entire drive?

[SCHISCHKA]

3 minutes ago, JoePro87 said:

Is there a way to delete just the OS partition, without totally wiping the entire drive?

yea just go to the drive manager and delete the partition

[JoePro87]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

yea just go to the drive manager and delete the partition

Oh. Well, I feel dumb. I haven't had coffee yet, I'll blame that. Will that get rid of GRUB, as well?

[SCHISCHKA]

1 minute ago, JoePro87 said:

Oh. Well, I feel dumb. I haven't had coffee yet, I'll blame that. Will that get rid of GRUB, as well?

thats a good question. it will and you might need a windows iso to restore windows boot back to how it was

[JoePro87]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

thats a good question. it will and you might need a windows iso to restore windows boot back to how it was

Okay. That's no problem. So, I deleted one of the partitions (as you know, it makes multiple partitions), but now I have this problem...which wouldn't be a problem, except I can't extend the main volume to fill in the unallocated space, for some reason. 750 GB going to waste is a problem.

[SCHISCHKA]

2 minutes ago, JoePro87 said:

Okay. That's no problem. So, I deleted one of the partitions (as you know, it makes multiple partitions), but now I have this problem...which wouldn't be a problem, except I can't extend the main volume to fill in the unallocated space, for some reason. 750 GB going to waste is a problem.

i get all sorts of BS when changing partitions, restarting the OS is the easy solution. Check the 2TB partition is not mounted

[Genius1237]

Try booting of a gparted-live disk and try extending the partition there. Linux tools generally do this better, and fill the gaps where windows fails

[MoonlightSylv]

27 minutes ago, JoePro87 said:

Okay. That's no problem. So, I deleted one of the partitions (as you know, it makes multiple partitions), but now I have this problem...which wouldn't be a problem, except I can't extend the main volume to fill in the unallocated space, for some reason. 750 GB going to waste is a problem.

Right click (E:) and click extend partition.

[JoePro87]

1 hour ago, ShadowTechXTS said:

Right click (E:) and click extend partition.

Yeah, tried that. You missed the part where I said it wouldn't let me. It is greyed out.

[KenjiUmino]

On 2.2.2017 at 1:54 PM, Genius1237 said:

Try booting of a gparted-live disk and try extending the partition there. Linux tools generally do this better, and fill the gaps where windows fails

this! - i do it like that every time i need mess around with drives and partitions that do already contain data

 

kinda feel more secure about working on existing partitions from a live disc (= no HDD partitions mounted / accessed by any os running off of these HDDs) 

[Guest]

On 2/2/2017 at 7:54 AM, Genius1237 said:

Try booting of a gparted-live disk and try extending the partition there. Linux tools generally do this better, and fill the gaps where windows fails

Could not agree more.