![]() ![]() You cannot do any moving without reconciling the extended’s size and position. Right now it looks like you have an extended which spans what was the entire unallocated space, with a logical (the swap) created at the end of the extended space. In the end, you’re wanting only 4 partitions. You will simplify things considerably if you get rid of the extended partition you inserted in the unallocated space you aren’t really using it. So it may be best to only create 1 partition in that space, leaving an unused 4th (for now) for a later extended partition, should you later want it (e.g., to create a separate /home). ![]() The 2nd or 3rd can be used for this purpose, but it creates complications. It is vastly preferable to have that extended partition be the 4th. The method by which more than 4 partitions is implemented is for one of the 4 primaries to be an “extended” partition inside of which “logical” partitions can be created. If you add 2 partitions in that space, you will have 4 primary partitions you cannot add any more. But if one of the new large drives, it very well may. If this is a smaller drive, this won’t apply. You may have another consideration, depending on the size of that space and size of the drive overall. So you need to add the partition(s) in the used space before reinstalling grub in the MBR, or, reinstall grub once again to the MBR after having made the partitions. And your grub device.map file (which tells grub which partitions correspond to its hd0, hd1, etc.) will also be wrong. Except now with the added partition(s), SuSE is no longer on sda2, it’s sda3 (or sda4, if you added 2 partitions). This is because when you install grub in the MBR, you place a pointer to the SuSE boot partition. If you do the above, reinstall grub in the MBR, go into SuSE to add new partition(s), and then reboot - it won’t work. When you add a new partition(s) in that space, it will change the partition sequencing. You can reinstall grub to the MBR with the Repair menu option on your openSUSE install DVD (can also be done from Rescue, but that’s using the command line and grub shell as opposed to Repair which will use YaST).įinally, and this is important: With the first partition downsized, you will have unallocated space between the first and second partitions. In the event something goes awry, this can come in handy getting yourself back working. Let me suggest that before doing any of this, you go into the YaST Boot Loader module and install grub to the “root partition”. Next, as already mentioned, Windows is going to install its own MBR, like it or not. You cannot resize, but you can delete what it sees as the C:\ partition, and then re-create a smaller one. The Windows installer will do it for you. If you are going to do a clean install of Windows, you don’t need to do any advance partitioning. Best also to have Windows reformat the partition, which you have to do anyway if using NTFS. And even if you use other tools like SuSE or GParted to partition, you will still be writing to the table with XP when it installs. Windows is exceptionally rigid, unforgiving, and doesn’t tell you what’s it’s doing. You are working with different partitioning tools, and in particular, you are touching the partition table with both Linux and Windows software, which handle the table differently. In case things go wrong, and opensuse doesn’t boot, you can try reinstalling GRUB using the Super Grub Disc…that’s another live cd !įirst, regardless of method used, it is strongly advised to backup openSUSE, at the very minimum your /home directory. So, in my opinion, you needn’t reinstall Windows, just resize the partition, that will do. Therefore, you’ll have to reinstall GRUB. I hope you remember that when you reinstall Windows it will rewrite the MBR. Windows XP might seem bewildered by the new change it has undergone and will take a few seconds to get accustomed to it.Īs I said before, it is safer to resize/remove a partition from outside the operating system rather than inside. When you’ve finished, reboot into Windows XP.As per the instructions in the documentation, reduce your windows partition to the required size and apply the changes.When you switch it on, it should boot into GParted.Shove in the GParted Live CD and shutdown your system.First boot into Windows XP and defragment your HDD.Just make sure you follow the instructions given below carefully:įirst visit the following site, and download the documentation for GParted (take a printout if necessary).ĭownload the GParted live cd and burn it as an ISO (it becomes a bootable disc now). You seem to be a newbie…anyway, helping newbies in distress is our specialty! ![]()
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