How can I delete all the partitions and start afresh?

Question

Owing to bad planning and lack of foresight, I messed up primary/logical partitions on my new 1TB HDD.

I need a dual boot Ubuntu and Windows, and one 100gb unallocated space just sits there in the middle.

I was thinking of merging it with the other unallocated space and install Windows on a logical partition, while Ubuntu remains on primary (is that even a good approach? )

Following is my GParted current view,is it possible to delete everything on the hard drive, all the partitions and start afresh by creating partitions from the beginning?

Thanks in advance!

Solution

If you don't mind to reinstall, I propose to reinstall instead of dealing with Gparted and all those partitions.

• Boot into Ubuntu Installation media. This can be either CD or USB stick.

• Start the installation. Proceed to Step 4 and choose "Something else":

  

• You will see your disk as /dev/sda

• Click "New Partition Table..." You will see that you have free space on your disk now:

  

• Create partition for swap if you want to use it(recommended)

• Select free space and click + and set parameters

• Create partition for /

• Select free space and click + and set parameters

• Repeat the same steps as many times as you need partitions

Then move on and complete your installation

Comments

[Maythux]

Then you need to reinstall

[Aman Alam]

I am fine with that. Do you mean I should put in the usb stick, boot in the live mode, and it will give me an option to wipe it all away?

[mchid]

I believe windows likes to be on a primary partition

[VRR]

Why not just create another partition?