Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3109 mails)

[Daniel Bauer <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody,

The HD (with Suse 10.0, ReiserFS) of my moms old laptop is broken and I 
thought, maybe there's a possibility to revover her e-mails and some OOo 
textfiles, but google wouldn't help me (I probably search wrong - find only 
commercial ads...).

Trying to mount /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2 with the rescue system fails (it says: 
partition doesn't exist)
The openSuse install CD says, "parted cannot format the disk".
reiserfsck says the SuperBlock cannot be read - and I cannot rebuild the 
Superblock with reiserfsck because I don't know what answers I should type to 
the questions it asks....

The only thing I know is that it's a 20 G disk with a swap, a root  and a home 
partition (with reiserfs). But I don't even know the sizes of the partitions 
or the version of reiserfs...

Is there a Linux tool to make a bootable CD, that will then search the disk 
and give possibility to save found files to a floppy?

any hints?
thanks

Daniel
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