On 29/12/2021 17.18, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Morning Felix - ;-) Thanks again for responding, I will again intersperse my comments after your suggestions -
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If reboot is not how you last exited Windows, you cannot expect the Windows filesystems to be accessible to Linux or YaST. OK, I tried it by inserting the USB stick with OpenSuSE installation ISO into the laptop while Windows was running. Then I had Windows do a reboot. The OpenSuSE installation started up OK but I still hit the same problem when I reached the point of setting up partitions for OpenSuSE. The installer "thinks" the SSD drive partitions are busy, and gives me the "cannot delete MdContainer" error message. So no joy....
Post the partition table, done with "fdisk -l" It smells of encryption, but I want to confirm. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)