Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi@xxxxxx>]

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.
> 
> 
> C.
agreed. Sorry I forgot about this. (Maybe because I always use a
separate miniature partition for /boot which I never delete, so that
windows stays bootable, not nice, but works)

If this happens out of bad luck, fdisk /mbr will probably
become handy.

cheers
Eberhard

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