Suse bloody linux...
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Bit of an afterthought just before shutting down tonight.
Months ago, I installed Suse Linux 7.2 (I think) and gave it a huge portion of my Hardrive. Erm, 15GB yes, 15, Fifteen, One Five, 15 Gigabytes of my 30GB HD. The rest of my Disc is split 10GB/5GB and on the 10 GB I have 952mb left and on the 5gb I have 400Mb left and need to get rid of linux and give it 'back' to windows before I run out of space totally
Problem is I can't remember how to do it, I have the 5 discs (even though they are copies).
Now, this is where it gets a wee ikle bit complicated.
I have 3 OS,
Windows 2000
Windows ME (Default)
Suse Linux.
But on the OS select menu during boot up I can only select one of the windows, Linux doesn't appear anywhere. I removed it months ago and can't remember how to sort it.
Oops.
So, is there anyone out there in IT land that can give me a hand to remove this, instructions and commands will do just fine, use as much Jargon as you wish, Having spent 2 years at college doing this cr*p I won't find following it too hard.
There is a few pints in for those who help out (well, when I eventually make it to a meet
)
Cheers
Stuart. and a rather sick computer.
Months ago, I installed Suse Linux 7.2 (I think) and gave it a huge portion of my Hardrive. Erm, 15GB yes, 15, Fifteen, One Five, 15 Gigabytes of my 30GB HD. The rest of my Disc is split 10GB/5GB and on the 10 GB I have 952mb left and on the 5gb I have 400Mb left and need to get rid of linux and give it 'back' to windows before I run out of space totally
Problem is I can't remember how to do it, I have the 5 discs (even though they are copies).
Now, this is where it gets a wee ikle bit complicated.
I have 3 OS,
Windows 2000
Windows ME (Default)
Suse Linux.
But on the OS select menu during boot up I can only select one of the windows, Linux doesn't appear anywhere. I removed it months ago and can't remember how to sort it.
Oops. So, is there anyone out there in IT land that can give me a hand to remove this, instructions and commands will do just fine, use as much Jargon as you wish, Having spent 2 years at college doing this cr*p I won't find following it too hard.
There is a few pints in for those who help out (well, when I eventually make it to a meet
) Cheers
Stuart. and a rather sick computer.
Sorry its late and I didnt read the message clearly, but from my tired eyes I can figure out that you have three OS's installed but only two come up on the boot selector when you power on? If so then this would be expected if you have installed Windows 2000 after Linux - Windows 2000 will identify and remove any other boot loader (first disk or boot sector) and replace it with the Windows one (with the correct identified Windows partitions of course - though please note that there is a limit of two to this!).
So this will have successfully removed the option for booting Linux. What you can do is to use the boot disk you created when installing Suse to boot it - you didnt do this right? I am the same, never do boot disks!
If this is the case then you can get around this by using one of the cut down linux distributions that fits on a CD or disk - boot this and get any files you want from there. I guess that you should be able to copy the files to the Windows ME partition OK. If not then let me know as you should be able to mount most Windows partitions correctly (though NTFS is a pain and FAT32 can be problematic).
If you want to get rid of Windows 2000, then this is more of a pain. Doing this will mean re-installation as the boot manager is totally different. Suggest the upgrade to XP is simpler and easier to manage rather than using ME / 2000 - any specific reasons for keeping ME?
Is this any help or have I missed the point? Let me know if I am close??
Cheers and need to sleep,
Paul
So this will have successfully removed the option for booting Linux. What you can do is to use the boot disk you created when installing Suse to boot it - you didnt do this right? I am the same, never do boot disks!
If this is the case then you can get around this by using one of the cut down linux distributions that fits on a CD or disk - boot this and get any files you want from there. I guess that you should be able to copy the files to the Windows ME partition OK. If not then let me know as you should be able to mount most Windows partitions correctly (though NTFS is a pain and FAT32 can be problematic).
If you want to get rid of Windows 2000, then this is more of a pain. Doing this will mean re-installation as the boot manager is totally different. Suggest the upgrade to XP is simpler and easier to manage rather than using ME / 2000 - any specific reasons for keeping ME?
Is this any help or have I missed the point? Let me know if I am close??
Cheers and need to sleep,
Paul
Getting there paul, but missed it by a Degree or two.
Last Christmas my HardDrive went up the spout so I bought a new one and on it put Windows 2000 in a 10GB FAT32, Put Windows ME in a 5GB FAT32 and Linux in a 15GB Linux Partition, the one that windows cannot 'see'.
For a while all 3 OS's came up on the boot selector menu, but in my wisdom decided that as I do not use Linux and have ample space with 14GB of free space on the 2 FAT32 partitions I wouldn't need the Linux space, and I might need to use Linux in the future. So I simply removed the Linux Choice from the Menu.
Now, that was back in February, and only now have I realised that I had the space, but don't anymore. "The more space you have, the more you find to put in it" as they say. So now I'm faced with the propect of having 2 15GB partitions, one FAT32 one Linux, One full, and one empty, and I can't access the empty one.
No Linux boot disc, can't remember any commands, can't remember a thing.
I want to Keep the two windows Partitions and 'tack' the third 15GB on the side to allow more room to shove files, instead on cluttering up my windows partitions.
Hope that explains it a bit better.
Last Christmas my HardDrive went up the spout so I bought a new one and on it put Windows 2000 in a 10GB FAT32, Put Windows ME in a 5GB FAT32 and Linux in a 15GB Linux Partition, the one that windows cannot 'see'.
For a while all 3 OS's came up on the boot selector menu, but in my wisdom decided that as I do not use Linux and have ample space with 14GB of free space on the 2 FAT32 partitions I wouldn't need the Linux space, and I might need to use Linux in the future. So I simply removed the Linux Choice from the Menu.
Now, that was back in February, and only now have I realised that I had the space, but don't anymore. "The more space you have, the more you find to put in it" as they say. So now I'm faced with the propect of having 2 15GB partitions, one FAT32 one Linux, One full, and one empty, and I can't access the empty one.
No Linux boot disc, can't remember any commands, can't remember a thing.
I want to Keep the two windows Partitions and 'tack' the third 15GB on the side to allow more room to shove files, instead on cluttering up my windows partitions.
Hope that explains it a bit better.
tvradict, if you want to boot Linux, boot frome SuSE CD1, select Installation, go ahead until a window comes up in which you can choose to install a new system or boot an installed one.
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If you want to delete Linux and make your Linux-partions available to Win2K, use the HD-manager (don't know, how it is called in English
) provided by the O/S. Simply format the unknown partitions (but take care not to hit the ME partition 
)
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) provided by the O/S. Simply format the unknown partitions (but take care not to hit the ME partition ) Gassing Station | General Gassing [Archive] | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff