This time I'll just respond without direct quotes; it's too hard to go through the quotes and add the >'s to keep things straight. The laptop is indeed UEFI. I'm not sure what that affects in my rebuilding, but I've decided to let the system stand as it is for now, since I'm on travel and would rather read and tweak at leisure without being concerned about needing a major restoration project while visiting relatives. I know VB will do what I need, and experimenting with the Linux VM facilities, or even VB cross-partition virtualization, is more than I want to push for now. You've asked repeatedly for the diagram of the disk management output; here it is from the W10 disk management tool. http://susepaste.org/49720401. We have until 5/18 to view it. Disk 0: the internal hard drive Disk 1: The Samsung flash drive Disk 2: the leap42 install flash drive For the moment, since 900G (or even 700G) is far more than I need, I'll just let things stand. Maybe in the future I'll rebuild the hard drive and play around with separate partitions, cross-partition virtualization, and kernel virtualization matters. Back to setting up my old VB system. Thanks very much, guys. john perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org