I'm a totally beginner, but I am facing a crazy complicate problem.
The Story:
- I installed elementary OS next to my Windows 8 successfully on my Laptop.
- As a bloody beginner I did a unbelievable stupid mistake and deleted some important parts of the system.
- I still had saved all my Documents, i like elementary OS anyway more than windows, so I decided to reinstall elementary OS again, this time on my whole computer, I hoped to delete windows and the broken OS this way.
- I chose "format everything and install elementary" in the installing-menu.
But now my laptop starts still with dual-boot-menu. Instead of choosing between windows and elementary OS, he ask if I want to start in elementary OS or elementary OS Freya, very weird.
I searched for help in the Internet and tried to ask in some Linux-forums but as person that starts to learn the very basic things about Linux and computer stuff in general just a week ago I was lost. Somehow I didn't know for what I have to ask for and so I got not-useful answers, somehow the answers was pretty complicate and let me again alone.
Anyway I learned a lot so I try another question here, that hopefully lead me successfully to the solution.
So that's my new question: I want to reinstall elementary OS again and format my two harddisks. I want to use gparted in the installing-menu for that. How can I make sure that the new installed elementary OS will find both harddisks and use both?
This is how my harddisks are partitioned at the moment:
Model: ATA Hitachi HTS54505 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 538MB 537MB fat32 boot
2 538MB 496GB 495GB ext4
3 496GB 500GB 4153MB linux-swap(v1)
Model: ATA LITEONIT LMT-32L (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 32.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 8589MB 8588MB Basic data partition
2 8589MB 9127MB 538MB fat32 boot
3 9127MB 27.9GB 18.7GB ext4
4 27.9GB 32.0GB 4153MB linux-swap(v1)
Thank you very very much for your help, it would give me back all the fun with elementary, because in the moment it's mainly frustrating.