[Mama Luigi]

Before I start, here's my current hard drive setup: I have three hard drives, two of which are in a RAID 1. The third hard drive I partitioned to create three additional partitions, each approximately 100 gigabytes in size. Each hard drive is one terabyte.

I intended one of the partitions from my third hard drive to be for openSUSE, and I tried installing openSUSE today on it.

This is where I fucked up. Somehow, it partitioned my entire C: drive (which was in a RAID 1), decreasing the size of it from one terabyte to about 410 gigabytes. I checked my copy of partition wizard, and I see there are several partitions the openSUSE installer created. openSUSE did not install onto the intended drive I wanted.

Here's a picture to elaborate.



Notice how Disk 1 has many partitions under it. Before, there were only two partitions: C: and the "active and boot" *:

What I want to do is restore my C: drive, effectively combining all partitions into one big partition. However, I can tell that somehow openSUSE has installed itself in the partitions. If I combine all the partitions, I want the drive to house only Windows, with no openSUSE stuff in there.

Do I just format the partitions and merge them, or do something else?

Help is urgently needed.

This post has been edited by Mama Luigi: 18 September 2010 - 04:16 PM

[Andlabs]

WOAH I COMPLETELY MISUNDERSTOOD

Back up the important stuff on the Linux partition with your data on it, then just delete the Linux partitions and resize the Windows NTFS partition to fill the new size.

I think I see what you're trying to do. If you want OpenSUSE in that partiton on Disk 2, you shouldn't have formatted it as NTFS, but rather had left it as free space (like, don't even partition it) and tell openSUSE to put itself in that free space instead of resizing Disk 1. For the record, openSUSE is one of the only few remaining distributions that splits your system into two partitions, one for / and one for /home, instead of using one big partition for the entire system.

This post has been edited by Andlabs: 18 September 2010 - 04:42 PM

[Mama Luigi]

Are you trying to get rid of openSUSE on Disk 1? Back up the important stuff on the Linux partition with your data on it, then just delete the Linux partitions and resize the Windows NTFS partition to fill the new size.

That's what I was thinking would work.

I was afraid that deleting them would have some sort of negative effect on Disk 1, but so far nothing has happened.

Thanks for your help!

[Andlabs]

No problem; I edited my post above because I reread your post and realized what you were trying to do. All you need to know is that you should have left the openSUSE space you wanted as unformatted rather than NTFS.