But none of that should matter if he's just starting the install...right? Once he gets it installed, then he'll have to worry about that whole can't write to NTFS thing.
I have only a passing familiarity with Linux and some Linux-guru (a Lurux?) will probably come along and slap me down pretty hard, but....
I wouldn't unplug the other two drives when installing SuSE because...well, I imagine that it's going to want to write to the MBR and it's better to introduce everyone now than try to get them all to play nice together later.
Wow...that sounded condescending. Believe me it wasn't. It's just when I run out of technical jargon, I like to break out the analogies.
I've installed a few different flavors of Linux of the last year or so and the install always recognized my drives just fine. Sometimes they were all jumbled up, but they were always there.
When I start messing with partitions, I get extra careful. I'd boot up windows and completely erase (No Fat32...no NTFS...just nothing) the 300GB drive via Administrative tools---->Disk management in the control panel. That way when the SuSE install reads all your disks, the 300GB should show up simply as free space and thus, easier to identify. I don't know if that'll work for you, but it helps me and I'm as thick as it comes concerning Linux and all its colors of the rainbow...
