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[RuneNova91]

Hi everyone. I had Vista by default on my laptop and installed the newest version of Ubuntu...I needed to do a reinstall of Ubuntu over the old one...however, it just installed another Ubuntu so now I have 1 vista and 2 ubuntus and I wanna get rid of one of the Ubuntu OSs on my machine...help?

[Alexander]

Use a partitioner to delete the old Ubuntu partition, this is safe as long as your installation's GRUB points to vista and the new Ubuntu (which is true provided you reinstalled GRUB with the new Ubuntu partition)

[RuneNova91]

what about formatting the recovery drive? is that safe or no? I mean at first glance it doesnt sound good but I was reading up on it

[BlaineSch]

I'm with NW here, I'd just delete the old one... of course I'd also resize one of the other ones (how did you get 3 anyways?).

You -could- reformat the recovery drive, and it's perfectly safe but it's so much easier to recover/format the windows partition (assuming that's the one it's for) and I would hate to do it via cd and finding drivers if it crashed. That would be a pain.

[RuneNova91]

well I had vista, installed ubuntu. there was something wrong with the first version of ubuntu so I wanted to install another ubuntu OVER it but it installed it next to it...unless I just dont understand the way the GRUB display is showing each os I have...it seems like there's 2 sets of ubuntu OSs

[Alexander]

GRUB should be correctly set up. verify with sudo fdisk -l which partition is the old Ubuntu, then you can remove that one using anything you like, you may be able to do it in Ubuntu because the old one will not be mounted.

Look in the GRUB manual on how to edit entries (to delete the old one) after.

[Milyardo]

If hes using the latest version of Ubuntu then he would be using GRUB2, which can autodetect installed Operating Systems. He should instead just run the update-grub command and have GRUB autoconfigure new menu entries for him.

[RuneNova91]

well Im not super familiar with how to use Ubuntu, yes I have the newest one (10.4?) and im trying to learn how to use it...I have gparted I think on there and another partition editor...so what steps would I take to figure out which partition is the old Ubuntu and how to delete it?