[thejushinator]

I purchased a used dell latitude c640 off of ebay recently. When i recieved it, it had both linux and windows installed on it. I have no idea how to use linux nor do i want it on my laptop. I went to google and typed in "deleting linux" and stuff similar to that with no success. Can anyone link me to or tell me the easiest way to delete linux from my computer ?

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Itll most likely be on its own partition you just need to reformat that partition, although if its set up for a dual boot i would just leave it as it can be a useful thing to have on occasion and has certain benefits over windows including speed and security and you dont have to use it just set windows as default and itll boot to that unless you specify otherwise and you can keep linux as your backup in case windows goes wrong which it can do on occasion.

[warriorscot]

Itll most likely be on its own partition you just need to reformat that partition, although if its set up for a dual boot i would just leave it as it can be a useful thing to have on occasion and has certain benefits over windows including speed and security and you dont have to use it just set windows as default and itll boot to that unless you specify otherwise and you can keep linux as your backup in case windows goes wrong which it can do on occasion.

[Kemasa]

If the boot loaded is setup for Linux, you will need to reinstall the Windoze boot loaded. You can do that by using the Windoze install disk.

If you just remove the partitions that Linux uses, you might not be able to boot the machine. Some version of Linux allow for reinstalling the boot loaded from Windoze, but then you need those disks to boot from it and use the boot options.

If you want the easiest and best way, I would strongly suggest reloading the machine from scratch. You don't know what is currently on the machine and it is best to only have what you know you can reload. This also means that you know that there will be no viruses, spyware other other things on the machine. Personally, I would not sell a machine without wiping everything out to ensure that my information is gone from the machine. I also do this when I get a machine since I don't want to find out the hard way that there is something on the machine which I don't care to deal with (ie. child [bleep]).