Two partitions from a bad install

[Patrick Newberry]

My tech knowledge is a bit limited but here is the situation I am in.

Got  a new box in the house yesterday that had a copy of windoz on it and said what the heck try the dual boot thing.

So I then start with a 10.4 version of xubuntu it gets past setting the base system. Setting of the passwords  and into the setting up of software it fails. I was not able to see the exact reason for the failure. I went back and did a disk check and it passed that.

I went back to the install base system step and tried that but then it failed in that step.

I had a copy of the regular ubunutu 10.4.1 so I built it and started the install again. It recognized my windoz and (I'm working from memory here) the screen showed a graphical  image of the disk at the top of the screen that showed the windows and the rest of the drive ... then some options and at t he bottom it showed another graphical image with the windoz and four partitions 5, 6, 7 and 8 (eg. two linux and two swaps)

I think that it will do the top version and go forward.

So now when I boot I have two linux options and one windows option. The second linux boots and runs fine, the windows option works fine, but the first linux attempt and 20 gig of space are well not working. I just like to get rid of it. So what would be the best approach to reclaim these two bad partitions on this system?

I guess that would involve modifying the grub file too so it does not show up on the list. I have someone coming over latter that has more linux experience but what to have a game plan in hand if I could.

I guess the other option would be to start over and re-install the ubuntu system, but it would be sort of nice to not have to do that. But I'll go with what seems the best choose.


Pat

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