Hi,

I have mult-drive multi-boot system. While installing Suse 9.3 on my machine I had to configure Grub manually so it would detect my other operating systems.

Here's my hardware configuration:
hda - Seagate 200Gb SATA drive
hda1 - NTFS partition with winXP
hda2 - Ext3 or ReiserFS partition holding misc data

sda - Seagate 200Gb IDE drive (Boots here after POST)
sda1 - Linux Swap space
sda4 - ResierFS logical partition holding Suse 9.3

In YaST's interface to the Grub config files, I had changed the disc order in addition to adding to the menu list. Much to my demise I noticed afterward that YaST had somehow overwritten the partition table of hda and now the partition manager sees the identical partition table as on sda.

In other words, I cannot access my NTFS or Ext3 partitions on hda, since my machine now thinks they contain the following partitions: hda1 - Linux swap space & hda5 - ReiserFS.

I don't particularly care about the NTFS partition, but I do care about the data that's on my Ext3 (or possibly ReiserFS) partition. How can I recover my data?

Thanks to anyone who can help!

Jay

I should probably add that I had backed up my MBR of both drives prior to this happening. Ironically, it was hda2 that I had stored them! D'oh!

No takers? I still have this dilemma

Maybe gpart can help? http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/

AFAIK it's included in Knoppix, and probably some other live cd's.

The SuSE installation has a repair option. It may be able to detect and repair the problem.