Format Windiows Partition

[gavdraper]

I recently installed Linux for the first time and went with the Ubuntu distro.

I installed it onto a partition on my windows secondary data drive.

I'm now up and running, I mounted the windows partition of my data drive and copied all my files onto the linux partition. I now want to format the windows partition of this drive to be an extended linux partition so I can copy all my data back onto it and have a linux data drive rather than an NTFS one.

Can anyone tell me how to format this ntfs partition to be a linux one?

Hope this makes sense im completely new to this.

[devils casper]

hi gavdraper,

Welcome to the LinuxForums.

you can use GParted to delete NTFS partition and create new ext3 partition. GParted is available in Ubuntu LiveCD.
you can delete and create partitions through fdisk too but i prefer GParted only coz it has GUI and its very easy to handle partition with GParted.

[gavdraper]

hi thanks for the response. I no longer have the live CD I gave it to a friend. Will GParted be isntalled on my system somewhere? I'm currently downloading the GParted live CD I was planning on burning to disk and I assume it will boot me into the Gparted UI to do my partitioning is this correct?

Thanks

[devils casper]

Will GParted be isntalled on my system somewhere?

NO. you have to install it through Synaptic or apt-get.

sudo apt-get install gparted

I'm currently downloading the GParted live CD I was planning on burning to disk and I assume it will boot me into the Gparted UI to do my partitioning is this correct?

Correct. GParted LiveCD works better than installed version in Ubuntu. reason: you have to unmount partition before doing anything with it and if you are going resize Ubuntu partition, it will be tricky,
you can use GParted LiveCd on any machine. it doesn't matter if that machine has Windows or Linux.