00:00Uninstalling Fedora depends on whether it shares a computer with Windows dual boot or takes up
00:06the entire drive. Scenario A you are dual booting Fedora and Windows. Step 1. Back up your data.
00:14Copy any important files from your Fedora home directory or shared partitions to an external
00:18drive or cloud storage. Step 2. Delete Fedora partitions from Windows boot into Windows.
00:25Right-click the Start button and select Disk Management or check via the official Fedora
00:30project wiki guide. Locate your Fedora partitions. They usually show up as unknown partitions XE4
00:37or swap spaces without a C. Right-click each Fedora partition and choose Delete Volume.
00:44Do not touch your C drive or the small hidden Windows EFI recovery partitions.
00:50The space formerly occupied by Fedora will now be marked as unlocated.
00:54You can right-click your main Windows C partition and select Extend Volume to merge that free space
01:00back into Windows. Step 3. Fix the bootloader. GRU. If your PC uses UEFI, standard on modern hardware,
01:10Windows Boot Manager should automatically take over priority. If Groove still shows up on startup,
01:16you can change your boot order inside your motherboard's BIOS slash UEFI settings to put
01:20Windows first. If your PC uses legacy BIOS slash MBR, you may need to boot into a Windows recovery
01:28slash command prompt environment and run bootrec slash fix MBR to clear out the GRU bootloader.
01:34Scenario B. Fedora is the only OS and you want to replace it or wipe the drive.
01:39Boot into a live USB. Insert a live USB installation drive for Windows, another Linux distro,
01:46or a partitioning tool like GParted. Wipe the partitions. Open the Disk Utility or Partition Manager.
01:53Select the Fedora drive partitions and delete them. Reformat or reinstall. Create a new partition table,
02:01GPT or GPT or MBR and format the drive to NTFS for Windows or install a new operating system over
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