Lost MBR after windows installed

Greetings!
My difficulty is that the SuSE 10.2 MBR was hosed when I installed Win XP on the first SATA disk (sda1) and the SuSE partitions are on the second drive (sdb1, sdb2 ... sdb5). Since the MBR was originally on what is now sdb1 and the MBR is on the other drive there seems to be no way to fix this other than to "update" the system. Is this correct? Doing a repair from install disk did not seem to work. The built in script kept telling me that it was trying to write to a disk that does not exist and failed during repeated attempts to fix this. Since the package checks seemed to see everything the original partitions are intact but the system seemed unable to rewrite the MBR to sda1.

Has anyone ever seen this before?

Regards,

Bob Taylor

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