On 2016-11-07 23:30, Fr David Ousley wrote:
Are Windows and the "BIOS" (motherboard firmware) set to boot in UEFI mode? I don't boot anything here in UEFI mode, so can't test such scenarios.
The openSUSE installer (when I boot from the install disk) shows the UEFI -related menu, as described in the openSUSE installation instructions, rather than the BIOS one.
*** You need the BIOS one. That's the problem. *** You said that your partition table (fdisk -l) was this: Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x5b171916 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 411647 409600 200M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 411648 450545663 450134016 214.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 898375680 950804479 52428800 25G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4 950804480 976771071 25966592 12.4G 12 Compaq diagnostics You deleted one partition (I don't know which one). You should paste your current partition table again. The free space must be contiguous. The above partition table, with Windows 7, has to be booted in BIOS mode. Be sure that your bios is set accordingly (legacy, probably). If the installation disk boots in EFI mode, it expects a GPT partition table, which it does not see, and thus wants to delete it all. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)