Open Suse Installation Help ...

[monster_eater123]

I have two identical Western Digital Hard Disks both are Sata 3 and I just want to take over my one Hard Drive and Keep the other with Windows. But, Open Suse wants it to install using my Nvidia Raid. It is very persistent about it. I just want to install and take over my second Hard Disk. How do I do this?? (I do not have Raid enabled on either drive)

[D-cat]

When you get to the part about partitioning, you click on it to change to manual partitioning, the next window may show you the "recommended" partition setup, you have to tell it to start with existing partitions ("discard" suggestion). Select Manual (Expert), Now you should see your two hard drives and whatever the existing partitions are.

If you have absolutely no way in manual partitioning to not use a raid array, (and you're sure Windows hasn't set up a software RAID mirror, which would flubb up the MBR and SuSE could be picking up on it), then the only only other suggestion I know of is to physically disconnect your Windows drive before installing SuSE. This is less than ideal because you're going to need to re-install Grub after you connect the Windows drive back up (probably easiest to use the SuperGrub Live CD), but it may be the only way to not only forcibly disable RAID but also makes sure the SuSE installer doesn't accidentally kill your Windows partition in its holy RAID quest.