Harddisk failure, please help!!
 

I had a hdd crash last night. It was real bad. My Barracuda IV 80GB seems to have more holes than a swiss cheese. It was attached as a single hdd in the primary IDE, with my SuSE 9.0 installed. I reattached it as slave with an old Quantum fireball as a master, where I re-installed SuSE 9.0 from scratch. Now I have a working system, but I REALLY need to recover my files and data from my old /home partition in the Seagate drive.
The problem seemed to be linked to an incorrect reboot. After that, my old SuSE couldn't get to boot, ran fsck, couldn't complete, asked for manual. I tryied everything from my (limited) knowledge, including fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree /dev/hda3 (my /home). But fsck told me that it couldn't complete, the filesystem is corrupted, I should buy a new drive, etc etc...Ok, I'll do that, but for the moment I have to recover my files.
What do you guys recommend to recover files from a partition that seems to be really damaged?
Please help!!!

re-connect the drive as master as long as you didnt delete the kernels and boot from it. and then transfer your files from the drive via network or USB.

Hopefully LILO or GRUB is still installed to the drive.

Ok, but the problem is that suse won't mount the partition for me. Tryied the old install, and the new. If I mount the drive as master, the next boot will run fsck but not correct errors. I have to correct these errors, even if it means that I'll loose some files and data.
The question is: how, if fsck can't?

Are you using some mystical SuSe GUI thing, or trying to mount it yourself via a terminal?