Deleting Win 11, reformatting partitions to ext4, and combining partitiona using GParted

Neal · May 31, 2026, 7:50pm

Thanks for the information. I didn't know that it had to be unmounted.

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Neal · May 31, 2026, 7:52pm

Thanks for the information. I didn't know that the drive had to be unmounted.

Ponce-De-Leon · June 1, 2026, 9:35am

This is Gnome Disks not GParted. Because of that, it looks like this.

You could try other Distro's in Live Mode from USB Stick, too. And when You use for it Ventoy, You can have several Distro ISO's on one Stick.

Neal · June 6, 2026, 8:28pm

Hi,

I finally got around to wiping Win 11 off my system by "-" out Partition 3 and reformatting it to ext4. I've decided to keep it as a separate partition and use it to do some distro hopping using Boxes.

Now onto the next step of cleaning things up by deleting the Windows Boot stuff on Partitions 2, 4, and 5 as you suggested. I would feel more comfortable using the File Manager as opposed to Terminal. How do I go about this?

I've attached a current screenshot of the GParted map.

Thanks for your help

Ponce-De-Leon · June 7, 2026, 9:41am

You can do that the Way, You deleted the actual Windows Partition. So, delete the Partition and format it.

Okay. You boot into Zorin. When in Zorin open the File Manager and click on ''Other Places''. Then click on Your Zorin OS Installation:

Then go to boot>efi>EFI:

And in the EFI Folder it looks similar to this:

In Your Case, You should have instead of the Debian Folder what You see on the Picture a Folder called Microsoft. Delete that Folder - only that Folder. Don't touch anything else.

When done, open the Terminal and type sudo update-grub and then reboot.