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So I recently deleted Linux because it was too addicting to me, and accidently locked 300gigs of my drive away. (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by Yoru to c/[email protected]

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I don't know what I did but I must've messed up somehow while deleting the distro, so now I only have 700 gigs of my total 1tb of disk space left, when I try to merge the other unallocated 300gigs of space back to the drive, it says "there's not enough space in the disk(s)". Anyone willing to help? here are the screenshots:

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[–] antik 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that EFI partition still being used? I take it there's a EFI partition on your windows drive, correct?

What you can do is create a bootable usb with a live linux distro and use gparted to sort out your partitions

[–] Yoru 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my windows is installed on my C drive so I don't think it's used(?)

[–] antik 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok then you should be able to delete everything but the "Mia" partition. After that you can grow that partition to the full disk size

[–] Yoru 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just ended up backing up the important data from Mia, then deleted the disk, turned it into a basic disc, and used a partition tool to combine them.

[–] antik 2 points 1 year ago

Alright, guess that works too :)