New partition table for Windows 7

Question

I had Linux installed on my laptop, I decided to install Windows 7. There were several linux partitions, I resized one and formatted it to NTFS, couple left untouched, I decided to merge them during installation into one. When I was installing Windows, I was unable to merge partitions. The question is: how do I create new patition table, i.e. delete all old partitions and create new.

Solution

You don't need to create a new one.
Open up Start -> right-click on Computer.
Choose "Manage".

When the Computer Management window pops up, double-click on Storage.
Then choose Disk Management (local).

Here, you can remove all the Linux partitions (implying you use Windows's boot loader, and not GRUB anymore), and expand the NTFS partition(s) of yours.

Comments

[Siva Charan]

you mean, all partitions have linux only. Now you want to remove those and install windows 7. Am I right?

[CheesyGnocchi]

Yes, you're right.

[CheesyGnocchi]

I am unable to expand partitions. This option is inactive. Any ideas?

[Apache]

After removing the partitions? (Notice: Remove them entirely. It may happen that an extended partition remains, taking up all the available space. Remove that too.)