Hilary Hertzoff wrote:
I had a bad hard drive crash last weekend. KDE froze to the point that I needed to do a hard reboot (the problem turned out to be a memory stick that was loose).
This is hardly a hard drive crash -- your drive is still working.
Tried to repair it using a SuSE boot disk and the repair option under install. This made things worse.
What exactly did you do, and what were the reported errors when you attempted the repair?
My current state is that if I try to boot that drive, I get a Grub error 16. I can't get into Grub to edit the boot setup
SuSE recognizes the partitions but fails when I try mounting the partition
Then there is nothing wrong with the partition table; grub error 16 is an inconsistent file system structure. Under no circumstances should you attempt to resize a partition with a corrupted file system. At most you should be trying to restore the file system using reiserfsck -- first with no parameters, then again following the instructions that will be returned by reiserfsck. You will be told to run reiserfsck either with the --rebuild-tree, the --fix-fixable, or the --rebuild-db options. As per 'man reiserfsck', normally the last option is only used if mount reports "read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs file system" and you are sure that a Reiserfs file system is there. If nothing above works, try --rebuild-tree again, using the -S option to force reiserfsck to scan the entire partition. Don't try this until you have exhausted all other options; if you haven't got a mountable partition after this, then as far as I know it is lost, though others may know of other things you may try.