Booted up the PC the other day and was faced with a kernel panic. Deeper investigation revealed that the Partition Table was corrupt. I was stupid and instead of using Knoppix to try to guess the partition info, I overwrote it. I then proceeded to be even more stupid and reinstalled Linux. Now I have an EXT2 partition, Swap Partition, and ReiserFS partition... same sizes as before.. EXCEPT the ReiserFS has less data on it than it used to. I know the old data is still there, just the new reiser tree isn't aware of it. What I want to do is troll through all the sectors of the partition that is flagged as a ReiserFS, find the data, and pull it off to another drive. To do this I need to ignore the ReiserFS tree and simply scan from the first sector to the last. Is there a tool out there that will do this?

I don't know that this will help, but, if you have a windows partition you can boot into, you could try ltools .

Seems to me that you might be able to get by with hexedit, which I believe is included on KNOPPIX. After you boot off of knoppix, open up a terminal and "su -" to root. Then enter "hexedit /dev/foo" where foo is the block device where your data is. Also, read the manpage for hexedit before you use it. Good luck.

Here is a link to one of LQs own help files which specifically deals with recovering data from a reiserFS partition.

I'll have a look at these.. I'm kinda at wits-end here. Will let you know how I fare.