two partions accidentally deleted

[mark03]

hi guys,

it's a little complicated. i have win xp pro sp2 and suse 9.0 on my computer (PT4, 1.8 ghz) installed. now i wanted to uninstall suse 9.0 to test mandrake 10.0. i didn't know what to do ,so i asked a friend. he said you need only to delete this two partions and all is gone. the result: i couldn't boot up my computer anymore because the system was booted by the grub bootloader.
i needed to access win so i decided ( i had still some start up floppy disk ) to install win xp sp1 on my d-drive in order to access dive c. it worked.
now what can i do? on my d-drive are still this two partion from suse 9.0. the com tell me it's free space but i have no access. how can i bring back this space to drive d?
what will happen when i delete win xp sp1 again? can i still boot up?

thanks a lot for your help.

[rrcn]

You didn't need to install another copy of windows. What you would have needed to do was boot from your XP cd and chosen the first repair and done a Fix /MBR (which will fix the Master Boot Record) and it will allow you to boot to windows normally.

[mark03]

i tried this. it told me to inspect my hardware settings and then the screen went black an nothing happened anymore.