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How to uninstall backtrack 5 dual boot window 7

How to uninstall backtrack 5 dual boot window 7



It’s not uninstall actually, Its just simply delete it.
after a month i tried to use backtrack 5, i found out that my disk space allocated for backtrack 5 was nearly empty, 10 GB was too small. So i’d like to add new disk space, but i haven’t found the way to do it. I came up with uncool steps.

  •  Remove old backtrack installation
  •  Re-install backtrack with new disk space allocation
to remove backtrack installation, which is dual booted with windows 7, i have to make sure my windows 7 can still work well. after googling, i got the message to do fixmbr to recover windows 7 boot manager. so here are the steps.

Step-1

 Fixing windows 7 boot manager

  • prepare your win7 installation disk (dvd/usb), plug it in.
  • start your computer, set the boot priority from bios setting (first boot usb, or cd/dvd room)
  • when windows 7 installation comes up, choose repair
  • choose repair this computer with recovery tool, click next
  • choose command prompt
  • enter this command
  bootRec.exe /fixmbr
  • Reboot your computer.

STEP-2

Remove backtrack

  • Now your computer should start the win 7 automatically
  • Go to control panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > choose Disk Management (under storage properties)
  • You will see clearly your computer partitions, delete your backtrack partition by right click > delete Volume
  • After it is deleted you will have new disk space and u can expand your other windows partition.

1 comment :

  1. Hello,
    If someone wants to remove BT5, is it possible that he just go to My Computer and just delete the partition that are without a name or label and leave the System and D drive alone.
    Will that do the trick.

    ReplyDelete

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