The reason C: ,D: etc from windows means nothing, and by itself is useless,(at least in part) is as follows.
In windows Your first partition on your first hard disk will be C: If you have 2 more partitions on that disk they are likely to be D: and E: (no guarantees there)
If you have a second disk, also with three partitions on it the first partition becomes D:
I will let you consider the complications involved in sorting out which win partition is where.
The next point, later versions of windows allow you to choose your own lettering for partitions( for example change D: to E: )
By this stage you may understand why sda1 means a lot more than C:
you are nearly right. If the first partition on the second hd is a primary partition it will become D: if it is there before installing windows or if you have an old windows version. Modern windows versions (2000 and higher) don’t mess up the partition letters after add another hd. Well, even though it doesn’t mean anything. C: can even be the first partition on the second disk if on the first disk resides e. g. Linux.
It’s just the same. Grub config files should be on a Linux partition.
Somehow that comes to about 500GB. It does confuse me a bit actually. However, I think that Vista is on the sda’s, sdb1 is the partition I made bigger after deleting another empty one - this change caused my problems. From sdb5, sdb6 and sdb7 (not sure what’s with sdb2) they are openSUSE.
I was thinking could a solution be to go into the partitioner and delete the linux ones and then the computer will just boot up windows as normal?
This is strange, I’m not sure I full understand it all. Is that output exactly as fdisk -l gave?
I would like some others to give comments and perhaps your clarification - Do you have 1 or 2 HD’s?
that output for the partitions I got from the partition manager.
I think I’ve only got 1 HD. When I got the computer it said it had a 500GB HD. In Windows Vista as default it displayed C: 224GB and D: 224GB. I assume this is one HD.
Try booting with the openSUSE DVD, go as if you want to install it
and in some point, I don’t remember exactly, I think where prompts you
to select new install or update, if you abort you have the option to
boot an installed system, this option boot the system even if grub is
dead, so boot and once in your system go to YaST and boot loader, use it
to read the partition table and propose a new grub config
VampirD
Microsoft Windows is like air conditioning
Stops working when you open a window.
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I’ll sort out cat when I can get this fdisk -1 issue sorted out first.
fdisk -l:
Absolute path to 'fdisk' is '/sbin/fdisk', so running it may require superuser privelliges (eg root)
when I come back online I’ll post the su-fdisk thing but I’ve got to go for now.
Ok, so when I boot, I get the Toshiba logo, and then after that when I only had windows, the windows startup screen would start. Now with Linux, I would have a grup interface with the option of booting either windows or opensuse. Well when I worked with the partitions a few days ago, when I next started up the computer this grub OS-choosing interface would not load - error 15. So I have been forced to now run opensuse off a live cd.
That’s the situation. I would like to remove opensuse and keep windows vista, hopefully will all my vista data and documents intact. The reason I was coming on here was to see how this could be done.
In my post just above, when I type in fdisk-l I get the ‘absolute path’ line. What I did to get the partition thing that you quoted was to go to YaST > Partition manager and copy what I saw. If you need an actual terminal line for this just tell me what to type in and I’ll give you what it spits out.
So sorry for all the trouble guys. I’m probably not communicating myself very well here.
Yes, I know it’s lowercase L. I’ve been using that ever since the bottom of page 1 I think.
I haven’t got round to doing anything more on this since I last posted, as I am really busy. Hopefully in the next few days I’ll get round to doing something.
From the original post, this is what I have a question about,
Vista is on a C partition. D and E are partition I created on windows before installing openSUSE. D and E are both empty. This morning I decided to merge D and E into one.
Where were D and E? At least, were they on sda or sdb? What further changes did you make in the partitioner while there, if any?
