Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Vince L <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 09 May 2007 08:28, Clayton wrote:
> > > Use the SuSe DVD and repartition the drive in Windows format. Windows
> > > will then be able to see the drive.
> >
> > Alternatively use windows and repartion the SuSE drive with NTFS.
> > Windows will then be able to use the space that you created where SuSE
> > was residing.
>
> That woks as long as you also rewrite the MBR to remove GRUB.  If you
> wipe the partition that has Linux on it without also removing GRUB,
> your computer will not be bootable until you find a way to rebuild the
> MBR (personal experience speaking).  GRUB will fail with an error
> about missing partitions, and you won't get as far as the selection
> menu.
>

Boot to windows first, and set the windows partition active. Reboot to show 
that it no longer works via GRUB, and repartition as above. I think that 
should work.
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