Getting system off dualboot without total reformat

[digitalfreedom64]

Ok, here's the deal. I have windows and SUSE on dual boot. Is there any way to get suse off my system and just have windows with out having to completely wipe the harddrive?

[Panama Red]

Here's a couple articles that may help.

http://www.aboutdebian.com/dualboot.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315224/

[digitalfreedom64]

Thanks PR, this may help. Gonna back up everything I want to keep first though.

[Computer Hobbyist]

Always back up. It is just much, much easier to decide to reformat the entire disk if you have backed up. Let us know if you are successful removing Suse and releasing it to Windows. BTW, why are you dumping Suse?

[digitalfreedom64]

Well I screwed up and ended up having to wipe the entire harddisk. Not exactly dumping it. Got another system I'm gonna be running it on and I needed the extra space on this machine for Windows. I've got a lot of stuff that runs on windows that i'm just not willing to give up.

[Ind-PC_student]

For future reference i think you can do such steps.

1 load the restore/install Windows CD

2 select the command prompt option

3 depending on the windows XP version you can do the "fdisk /mbr" # "fixboot" #fixmbr command to remove GRUB or LILO

4 use a Live CD with the QTparted application ex.. SYS resc CD, mepis

5 erase all the linux partitions on the hard drive and resize the ntfs partition to take all the hard disk space then click save/commit changes.

6 boot up the windows machine and wait for the scan disk utility to finish

7 the windows o/s will prompt saying new device drivers installed message do you want to reboot click yes.

8 done.