How to uninstall

[zuno]

Freinds,
My laptop has Win XP OS in Drive C. I installed openSUSE11.0 in Drive E. I am not a software man(I am a Doctor of Medicine) Kindly advice how to Uninstall openSUSE from my drive & oblige.
Thank U

[gogalthorp]

Please give us the information returned by the following commands.

at a command prompt

su
then the root password (note the password does not echo to the screen!)

fdisk -l ( that is a lower case L)

This will list the current partitions on your machine and how they are formated.
This is need to let you know which partitions that will need reformatting.

[D-cat]

It can be done from Windows too. You will need a copy of your Windows install CD.

In the Control Panel -> Administrator settings there is a partition manager. Find the non-windows partitions (they'll actually be ext3 or such, but Windows only knows FAT and NTFS, everything else is non-windows). You can delete those partitions and replace them with a single NTFS partition to reclaim your drive "E:"

When you restart, the computer will likely complain that grub cant find a stage 2 file (menu.lst); this is normal since you just nuked it. This is where your install CD comes in. Boot with the Windows install (recovery) CD and load the Recovery Console. When you get the C:\> prompt, type fixmbr and press Enter. Next time you reboot, you should get Windows and nothing else in the way.