install not recognizing partition

Just got the Suse 8 Personal box, read through the doc and started it up. I wanted to shrink my Windows (ME) partition, but the install says my one and only partition is "unknown" and wants to format the whole thing. I don't get any other options for this question. Frankly this is a little too early in the install process to be running into problems as far as I'm concerned. (I assumed I would have problems with it recognizing that CD/RW and CD-Rom were the same thing, or something with the sound, etc.) Any suggestions? Fred Schiff (fschiff@mindspring.com)