Kali Linux and Windows in the same partition on C Drive - linux

I have a very serious problem, I have installed Kali and Windows in the same partition dual-boot, So I want to delete Kali so what I have to do, should I make back up for windows then format the c Drive and how to fix the dual-boot problem, And I Don't have that experience in Kali I'm just new on that filed.
Thank you.

Wrong site but I'll answer while I took the time to tell you the question was asked on the wrong site.
You don't have Kali -- which is Debian Linux -- and Windows on the same partition. You have them on the same drive perhaps; but not on the same partition.
Open Computer Management -> Go to Disk Management.
For the partition which is NOT your Windows stuff, right click on it choose Delete Volume.
Insert your Windows recovery disk. If you don't have one, the install disk will work but you many need to perform some extra steps (Google will be your friend) than these:
3a. Boot from the disk.
3b. Select Repair Your Computer.
3c. Select Troubleshoot.
3d. Select the option for Command Prompt if one doesn't come up.
4d. Type: bootrec /fixmbr.
That will clobber the Linux information in the boot sector and allow you go directly into Windows when your box reboots.
I recommend running chkdsk c: /b /v /r /f and defrag c: /v /f afterwards as well.
HTH.

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the process goes like this.
You will have to install the above application on other computer and open it and fill your service tag and make that pen drive bootable with that application.
Now plug in that pen drive to the laptop.
Go for troubleshoot.
Repair.
Install new original os.
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I tried the following solutions.But I can't.
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http://linuxbsdos.com/2013/03/12/dual-boot-windows-8-and-ubuntu-12-04-in-uefi-mode/
and try to use repair disk and active your partition
steps :
Enter diskpart, then list disk after diskpart is loaded.
Enter select disk [number of the disk the partition is on].
Enter list partition, followed by select partition [partition number]
Type active
then ,
bootrec /fixmbr, /fixboot, /scanos, /rebuildbcd
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First of all go to: https://www.ventoy.net/en/download.html and
follow the instruction to create a Repair Disk.
Flow the instructions found here:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
Then Go to your PC BIOS and delete all the file listed on BOOT----->EFI. Reboot you PC, And now you can see your option list with Ubuntu and Windows, make your choice and start using it.
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apologies for vague description but essentially I have a Linux box (Ubuntu) which has three drives. The first drive is formatted with a Linux format (I'm not sure which one but probably irrelevant) and the second and third drives are NTFS as they have been shares on a windows network.
Can I just reformat the first drive to NTFS and install windows? Would I expect windows to see drives 2 and 3 as they are already NTFS drives?
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Backup/Image your system before doing any changes, if the system is critical.
Yes, begin Windows installation process. There will be a point in the installation where you will be asked to select the drive/partition on which Windows should be installed. Your first drive will be listed. You can wipe it off and choose the entire drive for Windows. Default NTFS will be created for you.
If you have trouble, create gparted live CD and boot system with it. It will allow you to wipe off the first drive. Then install Windows on that drive.
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Also, you will get some nice help on https://serverfault.com/ if there are complications with disk setup (RAID/LVM etc.).

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I had windows installed in system and have 4 drives in which C:/ is windows and other drives have my data.
then I install linux in my C:/ drive
but at installation time it shows only two drives,
one had equal size which had C:/ drive so I installed linux in that drive.
Other had equal size of rest of drives which i did not touch but linux change its file system to ext4.
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On a GNU/Linux system there's no necessary correspondence between directories and physical
devices, as there is in Windows where each drive has its own directory tree beginning with
a letter (such as C:)
So , given that the other drive is present, judging by the output of gparted as you said, you simply have to mount the partition(s) on a folder of your desire.
Check the Chapter 13 of debian tutorial on how you ll be able to accomplish this.
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I have both linux and windows installed on my pc. when I make some programs in lex and yacc (when working on linux)and store all the files in a folder ,they are corrupted If I use windows for some time. for example 3 days back after storing all the files( xyz.l , a.out ) I switched to windows for some other work after rebooting my pc. after 3 days when I again open that folder(while using linux) a.out was converted into an image and when I double clicked on it, an image opened. the image was same which I downloaded 2 days back while working on windows but I stored in some other folder. so does the memory space used for storage for linux and windows overlap? if not what could be the reasons? It has happened 2 times. and really I have to recode all my programs . I am not able to understand why?
It is not supposed to overlap.This sounds like a configuration problem , where windows and linux are configured to mount the same partition.
Check the file /etc/fstab (under linux) and find out whether this is true.You can try making files in various places and observe if they can be found on the other os.
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