fsck.reiserfs run manually

Hi all, discovered a bad hard disk, and now the system won't boot fully. Instead I get message : fsck.reiserf /dev/hdb3 failed (status 0x8) run manually! for each of the hard drive partitions (/dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdb3) and a message at the end saying fsck failed. Repair manually and reboot. The root filesystem is currently mounted read-only. ... Anyways, I try mounting the partitions, but get /dev/hdb1 is not a valid block device. I saw something about vgcfgrestore, which suggested that there should be some files about partitions under /etc/lvmconf, but don't see that directory in my Suse 9.0 system. Any suggestions? Bruce