Would anyone help me with this issue? i used to have both operating systems: windows and openSuse installed on my computer.
Once i decided to keep only windows and reinstall openSuse… Probably something went wrong: black screen -" no active partition, operating system is not found "( originally Vista Home premium on HP Pavilion ) Would anyone please give me the step-by-step guidance what can i do to restore my windows system?
( PhoenixBIOS via F10, somehow system is not booting from a DVD)
(sorry for the silly question, i am a blonde girl in a pink t-shirt)
What happened is pretty simple: OpenSUSE wrote some “generic code” to the MasterBootRecord and then likely wrote the GRUB bootloader to the /root partition where OpenSUSE was installed.
If you wiped the OpenSUSE partition now you are without any bootloader…
You might do two things (not clear to me if you still want to reinstall OpenSUSE or keep Vista only):
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reinstall OpenSUSE (or any other GNU/Linux): insert install DVD, power on, press F9 to see a boot menu, select DVD drive, enjoy the installer. If you see no F9 prompt, maybe you disabled DVD booting in the BIOS; if so, power on, press F10, adjust BIOS to enable “internal devices” > DVD drive (or something like that), save&exit, press F9 etc.
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you want Vista only. If you are lucky, boot a LiveCD or rescue CD (OpenSUSE or other GNU/Linux), open a disk editor like GParted, parted (command-line) or whatever you used in the past, set the “active” flag on the Vista partition, reboot.
If you are unlucky, you need a Windows recovery environment to re-write the original Windows boot code to the MasterBootRecord.
Hope this helps, feel free to write back if you need more assistance.
How did you install openSUSE then? You need to be able to boot from something to recover system that does not boot.