I need some serious help quick!
 

I had SuSE 9.1 Personal installed on my 80gb hard disk along with Windows XP Pro. I deleted the SuSE partition and the swap space and went to install SuSE 9.2 Pro and it will not detect my hard disk.!

What do i Do????
help me please

thanks in advanced

If you want quick help, why don't you provide some useful information:

Where in the boot process does it stop? What errors do you get. Can you change with F2 (or Ctrl+Alt+F1 to the text console)?

BTW: it was not necessary to delete the previous installation. Yast will do that for you during the installation process (if you ask for it).

it boots up then gets to the YAST2 screen.. then i select my language then it says "Hard Disk Not Found" or something along those lines. i really need this to work!!

thanks in advanced

Hmmm,

Does XP still boot?

yes Windows XP still boots

add:
when the kernel is streaming before YAST2 begins
i see:

hda: samsung sv8004h, ATA DISK Drive

then the error I get when YAST begins is

ERROR: No hard disks were found for the installation. Please check your hardware!

then if I will to the partitioning tab which displays "no disk found"

it says

"No disks found, please us the Update CD for installation."

i don't have an update cd... unless i should install SUSE 9.1 Personal then update?

OK,

Gotta admit, can't help you here, sorry!

Hope you get it sorted. (Have you tried SuSE's website?)

How did you delete the partitions? Did you leave empty space? Maybe the installer still sees and mounts them and refuses to use them. Sorry, but I am also kind of helpless.

okay now I have:

Parition A) Windows XP Pro - 15gb
Partition B) SuSE Linux 9.1 Personal - 15gb
Partition C) Linux SWAP Space - 1gb
Partition D) FAT32 Share Partition - 44gb

i want to update 9.1 to 9.2 Pro .. but it wont detect my hard disk OR the linux installation

How did you delete the Linux paritions?

You could always copy off the data you wish to keep from Windows, using rfstool, and then reformat or repartition using a partition tool like Partition Magic or Partition Commander.