help , help guys

[tawanda]

]i am new to suse and so happened that there was a power failure and one of our server running suse 9 is giving this error what should i do .

fsck : resiserfs /dev/hdb1 failed (status 0x4).run manually. Failed.

i am behind schedule guys please help.

thank u in advance.

[44139]

looks bit like hard drive failure or partion fault on second secondary connected hard drive. Do try reinstall or startup disks, if reinstall you will lose all data on hard disk. Unless someone knows more, thats what I suspect. Reiserfs is a partion name or description, hdb1 is hard drive, secondary second connected. Prob. partition corruption is usually major disaster, reinstall may have to include media quality test to verify no physical damage. Be prepared, hdd may be unsusable. There's a lot to be said for UPS, even for amateur use. BTW always use a power filter on mains supply and incoming phone line-better some protection than none.

[joewee]

Your filesystem is corrupt. I dont think there is a quick fix to this if any. You may have a hard drive with physical damage. You might want to google something to the affect of, reiserfs recover, I know this isnt much help but its not good. Others here may be able to help more.

[44139]

specialist hard drive data recovery services may be able to recover files if hdd is removed without further powering up or fiddling about. (Do NOT knock/jarr it, especially if your in an aeroplane/at even modest altitude, modern hdds do not like low air pressure and movement, as used in aircraft!) Oft not cheap nor quick, and oft incomplete, but they'll get what they can. It's up to you: what you can afford and how long you can wait, and what the data is worth. A field of rich pickings for those who know how to do this.