Unable to uninstall Mandriva
I wasn't sure which forum to put this in, since I'm new to Linux I guess I'll post here.
I recently installed Mandriva on my computer, got annoyed with it, and decided to reinstall another Linux distribution (Vector). When I uninstalled other operating systems all I had to do was put in the install disk, reboot, reformat the partition, and install over it. I got to the partitioning and I noticed a couple of things: - My Mandriva partition had a lock next to it and I could not delete/reformat it. - I had a new device: /dev/hdb/ with 172.57 MB of free space. This isn't possible. I only have on hard disk and I've never added any hardware to my computer. I tried to create a new partition table, but couldn't. I didn't get an error, Gparted just said "Unable to complete operations! Partition is in use!" or something like that. My Windows partition was completely deleted though... So I restarted my computer, started the installer for Vector, and... the installer froze after I got to the part where the installer "searches the disk for installable media". I popped in a disk with a different version of Vector on it and it froze at the exact same part. I took out all of the disks and Mandriva is working just fine, but its still frustrating not being able to do anything with my own computer. I came across a couple of other threads that said that there's problems with removing Mandriva's boot loader, but that isn't really useful at the moment. Why can't I uninstall Mandriva? |
have u tried using gparted live to delete the partition and start from scratch with free space
if not type in gparted live into google and burn the iso to a dvd and use it from boot from there you will have complete access to your hard drives partitions and can do anything u like with them |
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You could as well try the gparted livecd or something like that, that doesn't do stupid things like mounting a partition that's not going to be used for anything. After wiping all your partitions you can proceed with VEctor or whatever. |
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Well, then the question that you should be asking is this one: "why the heck is the livecd mounting that drive?"
You are not going to delete or format it until you can unmount it. |
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Bear in mind that I know nothing about Vector, maybe the reason why it does that is crystal clear to a Vector user, but I can't figure why the heck it is doing so *before* the partitioning stage. It just makes no sense. |
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