If you have had GRUB loaded in the boot sector of the first hard drive, then the Windows boot loader will be overwritten. If you put it back, then you will need a Windows compatible boot manager to be able to dual boot Suse. I used Boot Magic which came with Partition Magic 7, but it was too clunky, and now I use GRUB to dual boot XP & Suse and it works fine. If you have to use XP as your default, you can set that in GRUB. I have an old laptop for testing with Win98 & Kubuntu booting with GRUB. Win98 is set as the default and it works fine.
If you must boot XP then you need to boot to a DOS prompt somehow aand use fdisk. I think the command line to restore the boot sector is: >fdisk /mbr
Haven't needed to do that for a while, and I have no idea how to boot XP to a DOS prompt!
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