I have 9.3 and was working on getting the DVD players to work, now things are screwed-up. I need to start over.
New at Linux, what a pain to make things work.

Thanks for your help.

Before you decide to reinstall, you could possibly explain what is wrong as someone on this forum may be able to help you. It saves you reinstalling.

Have you tried running 'repair installed system' via the Suse install disk? To try this, reboot with the disk in and when its says 'new install' choose 'other' and then 'repair installed system'. A reinstall should really be your last option.

If your system is beyond repair, simply reboot with the Suse CD and reinstall. Make sure Yast doesn't write to your /home partiton if u have one, as you will lose your data. Just make sure it uses your current root partition to install on, or if you have installed Suse on one big chunk of your hardrive, you will have to tell Suse to overwrite it when you get to the partitioning stage. Suse will not by default choose to overwrite itself. Same applies to M$ if u are dual-booting, make sure it doesnt format that partition.

And yes, Linux is difficult as first but you'll get on top of it with time!

EDIT - Make sure you back up your data if you do not have a separate /home partition as you will lose everything when reinstalling !!

I did try to do a repair but the system just locked up after that, I also went into yast and tried to fix the mess from there but; I have know way to tell it what was changed.. I am duel boot as you thought, I will try to do a clean install. I won't give up.

Thanks for your help.

I set my bios to boot only from CD.
Now it won't do anything, just times out after :10 min...
Then boot from HD. It does load the duel boot interface and I can go linux or win. I have tried many times to get the cd drive to load My 9.3 dvd but it won't?
How can I force it to boot from the cd? I have all boot options set to cd in the bios. I have never seen this one...

Should I copy Fdisk to a cd in windows then boot to it and fromat the linux side?

ok, I am still not quite sure what's wrong with your system but if you have dependency issues you could try (as root) opening a shell and typing:

rpm --rebuilddb

This will try and repair your installed packages. Failing that, I think you will need to download another suse dvd because even if u were able to format you current Suse partition, you still need the Suse DVD to reinstall linux.

Does anyone have any other suggestions??

Thanks I will give it a try.
I did not down load my version, got it from Novell. Dhoo. I just rememberd I also have the Cd's that came in the box..
Something about the forest and trees?

I went into Yast and opened up the Partion manager and formated my HD. That was the only way I could get a fresh install. Now I can start over and set up the MP3 and DVD tune-up the is needed to get Suse up to speed.

Thank you to all who tried to help me!