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I have a home assembled desktop computer with Windows 8.1 installed. I have previously had Windows Vista Business 64 installed and I remember experimenting with Ubuntu some time ago (dual boot).

I can see 4 partitions, where the largest of course is my Windows 8.1 primary partition:

Windows partition view

Using the application MiniTool Partition Wizard I get the following informations, stating that the remaining partitions are EXT4, EXT3 and Linux Swap:

MiniTool Partition Wizard view

Question:
I want to clean up the partitions and would like to know if I can safely assume that the three small partitions has nothing to do with my Windows 8.1 installation? I don't need my Ubuntu partitions and would like to delete them.

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Windows doesn't use nor even recognize ext or Swap partitions, you can delete them safely.

Remember that deleting partitions won't give you more space, you'll have to create a new one in place of those three and format it in a format recognized by Windows - NTFS will probably be the best choice.

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  • Thanks for your reply. I'll delete them and extend the primary partition. Ext2Read allowed me to see the contents of the EXT3 and EXT4 partitions and they looked like a set of Linux partitions.
    – Chau
    Commented Dec 1, 2013 at 16:22

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