Basically, the problem is on my main desktop box, which has been running Slackware 9.0 for a few months now. All the partitions were formatted with ReiserFS. Not long ago, the hard drive began to fail and the computer would freeze/lock up intermittently. Sometimes, the hard-drive wouldn't be detected at all during the POST.
I'd pulled a hard drive out of my g/f's computer a few months ago so I decided to throw it in and install Windows XP on it until I got all my files backed up from the Linux drive. Everything was pretty normal until one day when the computer would stop recognizing the Linux hard drive altogether, but I figured I would just use WinXP until the computer decided to detect the Linux drive again in order for me to back everything up.
Here's where the real problem starts..........
Just a few minutes ago I plugged the hard drive w/Linux back in and it booted up ok, but the filesystem on my home directory's partition is gone.....just that one partition. The root filesystem and my /usr/local partitions are fine, and still display Linux - ReiserFS when viewed with cfdisk, but /dev/hdc6 is simply listed as partition type Linux.
Obviously the partition is unmountable and I had a lot of important files in my home directory. My question is if anybody knows a way to recover the data from the partition, if anybody knows how this could have even happened or has had it happen to them before?
Thanks in advance
It's all gone - is there any way to get it back?
