How would I remove SuSE Linux on a dual boot system with xp

[cheetahman]

Where can I find a tutorial to do it

Once you boot from the CD follow the instructions until you get to the part where you see all the partitions on your hard drive.

Also I am refering to this guide

http://www.linuxforums.org/tutorials...ial-20532.html


I am going to completely uninstall SuSE Linux the reinstall is a dual boot as a way of increaseing space

Also I found these too would they help but they look oudated and when I remove Linux won't I have a huge space of blank space which I could merge into XP

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/1999/03/tg_deinstall.html
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/0...tall_grub.html

Also I don't have partition magic

Its a dual boot with Xp and Xp is the primary install with SuSE as second in one hardrive

[Nesbit]

Hi cheetahman

Actually you can delete your Suse Linux partition(s) from within XP.
Boot XP.
Click Start/Control Panel/Performance and Maintenance/Administrative Tools.
Dbl click the Computer Management icon.

In the Left pane on the Computer Management window click Disk Management.
The Right pane should show a graphical display of your drive(s)
Something like this:


There should be two linux partitions shown as "Healthy (Unknown Partition)".
If you Right click on a partition you get a menu:

Select from the menu "Delete Logical Drive".
Start with the smaller partition, it should be the SWAP file.
Then repeat the process for the larger of the two.

That will leave Free space where the two linux partitions were.


Right click in the Free space and select from the menu:
"New Logical Drive"___If you want to create a storage partition.
"Delete Partition"_____If you want to create Unallocated space.



If you create "Unallocated" space you have two options.
By Right clicking in the Unallocated space and choosing from the menu "New Partition",
You can create a Primary or Extended partition.
If you create an Extended partition, you must then create a Logical drive within it.
All created partitions must be formated Fat32 or NTFS to be seen by Windows.


If you want to expand the C: partition into the Unallocated space,
a third party application would have to be used such as Partition Magic.


After formating and rebooting the computer
boot may freeze at the GRUB boot loader.

The easiest way to delete the grub loader is boot
the computer using a Win98 boot disk. (yes this does work for XP)
At the A:\> prompt type
fdisk /mbr
and press Enter.
Reboot the computer. XP should load.

Any time your working with partitions backup as much as possible.

[cheetahman]

Originally Posted by Nesbit

Hi cheetahman

Actually you can delete your Suse Linux partition(s) from within XP.
Boot XP.
Click Start/Control Panel/Performance and Maintenance/Administrative Tools.
Dbl click the Computer Management icon.

In the Left pane on the Computer Management window click Disk Management.
The Right pane should show a graphical display of your drive(s)
Something like this:


There should be two linux partitions shown as "Healthy (Unknown Partition)".
If you Right click on a partition you get a menu:

Select from the menu "Delete Logical Drive".
Start with the smaller partition, it should be the SWAP file.
Then repeat the process for the larger of the two.

That will leave Free space where the two linux partitions were.


Right click in the Free space and select from the menu:
"New Logical Drive"___If you want to create a storage partition.
"Delete Partition"_____If you want to create Unallocated space.



If you create "Unallocated" space you have two options.
By Right clicking in the Unallocated space and choosing from the menu "New Partition",
You can create a Primary or Extended partition.
If you create an Extended partition, you must then create a Logical drive within it.
All created partitions must be formated Fat32 or NTFS to be seen by Windows.


If you want to expand the C: partition into the Unallocated space,
a third party application would have to be used such as Partition Magic.


After formating and rebooting the computer
boot may freeze at the GRUB boot loader.

The easiest way to delete the grub loader is boot
the computer using a Win98 boot disk. (yes this does work for XP)
At the A:\> prompt type
fdisk /mbr
and press Enter.
Reboot the computer. XP should load.

Any time your working with partitions backup as much as possible.

Couldn't you use the Xp cd also and great tutorial

[Nesbit]

Yes you can use the XP CD.
If I were using the CD I would use the Recovery Console.
DISKPART----to delete and recreate the partition.
FORMAT------to format the partition.

C:\>format x: /fs:fat32
If you want a different file system change the
/fs:fat32 to /fs:fat or /fs:ntfs

X represents the new partition

[d0ga]

Nesbit, worked for me @ win2k. Thanks a lot.

Regards.

[Nesbit]

Fantastic

[kidalia]

i found that you can also use a bootable linux installation cd.