I have installed Windows 8 on my laptop and i want to completely "delete" my HDD. I want it to be blank just the way i bought it. Because i want to install Linux on a blank HDD. Could anybody help me ?
Tnx.
You can make an Ubuntu Live CD and boot into it. Choose "Try Ubuntu without installing". Then, open Gparted Partition Editor and choose the hard drive you want to format. You can see the list of hard drives you have in the top right corner.
After choosing the hard drive, you will see a list of partitions you have on the Hard disk. Right click on every one and choose Delete. After you finish, all you have is Unallocated space.
Now you have a blank HDD on which you can install Ubuntu. Before actually "applying" these changes, let's go ahead and create our Ubuntu partitions. We need at least 2.
Right click the unallocated space and choose New. First, create a swap partition of type linux-swap that is at least the same size as your RAM. Again, create another partition but this time of type ext4 and the size you want. Set the mount point to /.
After you finish, click the green checkmark to Apply all Operations.
Finally, close Gparted and choose Install Ubuntu from the desktop. Enjoy Ubuntu :)
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