both of my sata drives are seen in bios and in the installation what i wanna do is use one of my drives for downloaded files but open suse is only seeing one drive i used gparted and it made my system unbootable is there anyway i can get suse to see my other drive so i may store my downloaded files on if so can some one please walk me through the process 
thanks
Can you show use the ouput of
su -
fdisk -l
thanks for the reply this is what i get
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x85aa4cc8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 4208639 2103296 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 4208640 46153727 20972544 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 46153728 1953523711 953684992 83 Linux
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on ‘/dev/sdb’! The util fdisk doesn’t support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 976773167 488386583+ ee GPT
I’d try and wipe that drive and repartition with the older partitioning scheme
GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Is this an Apple drive or machine by any chance? I wonder how you got this on there in the first place.
it’s a custom built pc one drive is a samsung 1 tb and the other is a western digital 500gb both sata drives, and ill take a look at the link provided kinda new to linux a friend online recommended me to this distro, im fresh from windows 
Before performing any destructive action, determine exactly what is found on /dev/sdb. I am somewhat surprised to find GPT formatting on a 500GB drive while not found on the 1TB. Read GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and use an alternate utility, as fdisk does not support GPT drives.
what should i reformat this drive as ext 3 ext 4 fat etc? im not totally sure sorry , and thanks alot for the replies
On 2011-10-05 18:36, ben02746 wrote:
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> what should i reformat this drive as ext 3 ext 4 fat etc? im not
> totally sure sorry , and thanks alot for the replies
If you are using the machine only for linux, then either ext3 or 4.
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