I will soon receive a replacement SSD from Corsair (of whom I can only say good things!) that will once again become my OpenSUSE 13.1 drive. I currently have /dev/sda as my Win7 drive (NTFS) and /dev/sdc with both Win7 data partitions and OpenSUSE (swap, root, home) partitions. The new SSD will be /dev/sdb. My plan is to delete OpenSUSE from sdc, extend the Win7 partition to fill sdc space, boot from the OpenSUSE install DVD and install clean to sdb, and write the GRUB2 file to the MBR on sda, which will presumably overwrite the GRUB2 file that is currently there. This will result in GRUB2 giving me options at boot to start either Win7 on sda or OpenSUSE on sdb.
Does all this make sense, or is there a more sensible way to manage the GRUB2 file replacement process? If I were uninstalling OpenSUSE permanently, I'm sure there would be a better way to do this so that Win7 still booted properly, but in this case, I am expecting that the end result will give me a boot menu that does what I want.
Does all this make sense, or is there a more sensible way to manage the GRUB2 file replacement process? If I were uninstalling OpenSUSE permanently, I'm sure there would be a better way to do this so that Win7 still booted properly, but in this case, I am expecting that the end result will give me a boot menu that does what I want.