The latest problem I've had with SUSE is XP wouldn't load when I set up the machine as a dual boot. When I selected "WINDOWS" in the opening splash screen, I received "Could not find NTLDR" which means it can't load XP. This is on a FAT32 formatted drive, which I set up so I can write files to the XP partition from SUSE.
Eventually I had to reformat in NTFS to get XP to load with SUSE, though of course I now can't write to XP from SUSE.
Sigh! The testing continues
Any thoughts on this problem?