Wipe windows and make Ubuntu Mate use whole drive

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Now I know its been awhile for me playing with Linux but I think I’m going to go ahead and wipe the windows. But I’ve gotten my theme. icons and wallpapers all set the way I want them. I dont have much data on the hd. So if I was to use a live usb to wipe the windows partitiions with gparted and enlarge my UM partition, re-install grub would I still be good with my theme, etc?
Or can I make a live usb with Startup Disk Creator that would save my theme, etc and let me do a “fresh install” of UM?
This thing also has UEFI so dont know about these questions. Its the first computer I’ve dealt with UEFI on.

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Hi @UnkleBonehead,

if you take a look at the partition guide, it has a section on UEFI at the bottom (section 4):

More links available in the beginners guide also:

Info about backing up your data:

Installing using the "Something else method" and retaining your data intact:

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I think my MacBookPro had EFI on it when my son had it booting to Apple
or Linux. When I inherited his hand-me-up I used the Linux for a while
until it got unreliable (it had an old X-Ubuntu on it) and I just made a
64Bit ISO U-Mate on a USB stick, booted it, wiped everything and
bare-metal installed it. It did not boot properly first time and I
thought uh,oh!! But on the second boot (with no changes) it was fine,
and it has not looked back.

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Have a look at the tool called “Aptik”, you can backup your system and restore it after fresh install. Here is a guide;
http://www.teejeetech.in/2016/04/upgrade-to-ubuntu-1604-with-aptik.html

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I just did it installing UM 19.10 on my HP Spectre.
I simply went with full automatic install - without playing with partitions - and letting the install wipe out the disk. All went well and works fine since more then 2 weeks now.
Are things need to be more complicated then that?

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