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saeed
02-11-2008, 07:25 AM
I've got two operating systems suse and windows xp. I have never think about uninstalling windows from my pc but now I'd enough. Now Instead of deleting the partition and do it all from start, I want to know if there is any easiest way to get rid of Windows and leave only suse on my machine.
oracleguy
02-11-2008, 08:34 AM
There hasn't been an uninstall for Windows for a long time (not since 95). Do you have a separate partition for your windows install?
abduraooft
02-11-2008, 08:36 AM
If it is on a FAT32, then mount to your SUSE and then delete all files & directories. (I haven't tried, but hope ;))
firepages
02-12-2008, 01:12 AM
if you have qtparted (if not get it ;)) you can delete the entire windows partition and either create another ext3 partition for suse or resize one of your existing suse partitions.
ghell
02-13-2008, 05:20 PM
or any other parted.
Andrew Johnson
02-13-2008, 06:46 PM
Can't you delete a partition from that blue console screen you get when you boot from the XP CD ?
Apostropartheid
02-13-2008, 08:12 PM
Can't you delete a partition from that blue console screen you get when you boot from the XP CD ?
You could, but that'd take the entire hard disk with it.

If SUSE doesn't have a partition editor, download a Live CD of Ubuntu and use QtParted on there.
oracleguy
02-13-2008, 08:32 PM
You could, but that'd take the entire hard disk with it.

No it wouldn't, it would let you delete specific partitions.

Though there are better tools like the mentioned parted than the partition editor in the Windows installer.
Andrew Johnson
02-13-2008, 08:39 PM
You could, but that'd take the entire hard disk with it.

If SUSE doesn't have a partition editor, download a Live CD of Ubuntu and use QtParted on there.

That's definitely not the case, I have my HD split into 2 partitions and I only clear one I format.
ghell
02-14-2008, 12:18 AM
I have used the partition editor in the installer to delete a single physical partition before. If it wiped the whole disk for you, you may have had it on an extended partition or something?

Anyway, any decent partition editor will let you do what you want. If you don't have one, you can always get the tiny gparted live cd (http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/), though suse will definitely have a partition editor in its packages somewhere.