Can one delete the folder windows and other system files of Windows 7 within Ubuntu?

[jhmac77]

Can one delete the folder windows and other system files of Windows 7 within Ubuntu?

 

[jimmy00784]

Yes....

... if you have administrative access.
or if you have sudo access.
Use it with caution though.

 

[flotwig]

Yes, the ntfs-3g package doesn't really respect NTFS permissions, so you can do just about anything on an NTFS filesystem from within Linux. Be careful though.

 

[jhmac77]

It worked just using the Ubuntu disk on "try it out". I had a bad boot on one of my hd so I deleted the Windows file and now it is a data disk.

 

[Bill]

Most modern computers have a recovery partition, which will allow you to fix most problems with Windows.

On second thought, getting rid of Windows was probably the best choice.

 

[jhmac77]

Actually I used the recovery disk with no success, so I used Ubuntu to delete the Windows folder still keeping my files. I would like to use Ubuntu regularly except there are certain files which I can't fine a workable substitute. One such file is Quicken which is one of the primary reasons I am using windows.