I want to get rid of the W7 loader. I know how to remove it from GRUB, but I want to delete it altogether. Is it safe to do this with gparted? Or is the best thing to do transfer the data and format the drive?
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lysander@psychopig-xxix:~$ sudo sfdisk -l
[sudo] password for lysander:
Disk /dev/sda: 19457 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units: cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 0+ 12- 13- 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 13 19456 19444 156183930 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda5 13+ 19456 19444- 156183898+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdc: 9729 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
sfdisk: Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
Units: cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 0+ 9329- 9330- 74936320 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 9329+ 9729- 400- 3212289 5 Extended
/dev/sdc3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdc4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdc5 9329+ 9729- 400- 3212288 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 38913 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units: cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 38912 38912 312560640 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb5 1+ 38912 38912- 312560608+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT