Hey guys, I’ve been using Linux Mint and Windows 11 via a dual boot setup on two laptops for a while.
I hardly ever use Windows 11, except on my work laptop, so I want to delete it from my personal laptop.
How can I do this? What is the safest and easiest way, and what should I bear in mind?
Thank you in advance for your answers, and have a sunny day!
Step 1: make a backup / clone the disk
Step 2: double check the backup
Step 3: Assuming you’ve got a grub bootloader, boot into Linux Mint, use GParted or Gnome-Disk-Utility
Step 4: Identify your NTFS Windows 11 partition, the utility should show if it is mounted or not (it should not be mounted unless you added it to /etc/fstab
Step 5: resize your Linux mint partition (ext4fs), & make sure you don’t accidentally move the partition
Step 6: sudo update-grub to remove the entries for Windows 11 since it doesn’t exist anymore
More info on if you’ve got an HDD vs SSD, MBR vs GPT partitioning, or a screenshot of your partition table from either of the disk utilities in step 3 would help us help you
This misses the step where you delete the windows partition - between steps 4 and 5. You have to delete the NTFS partition and resize your linux partition to fill the empty space.
You can also create a new linux partition if you wanted as a separate space to store stuff.