OpenSuse 10.2 needs repair

[eudeal]

I have reinstalled (yet again) Opensuse Linux 10.2 (love it when it works) on an entirely different HDD. Previous HDD had corrupt WIN XP PRO partition I am trying to save and I thought perhaps was corrupting the Linux partition too. Anyhoo, I am getting the same boot issue on the latest HDD. It just won't boot. Actually, the boot menu went through a visible change that I can't figure out either. It's a dual boot (Win XP PRO-corrupt again, that Winsys32 missing file crap) menu that all of a sudden only offered Windows, floppy and the Linux Kernel as options. That's a strange issue.
Now the boot issue. Usually some part of the boot script fails and I restart, sometimes several times. Then it will get to the point where it says, "fsck.ext3 /dev/hde6 failed (status 0x7f). run manually!" I try to run it manually and tells me that it can not find the file system. I would like to repair it because this is ongoing and reinstall isn't the answer. Tried the repair function (from auto to custom to expert) on the install CD but that doesn't work. It won't repair the file system and the says it can not identify the Linux root partition. I have a dual boot 120 HDD that I pulled for the clean HDD that has a lot of music on it I would like to save. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

[gogalthorp]

To me this sounds like the disk controler is flacky. Having problems with both XP and Linux on different drives. Also check you cables. Loose cables sink hard drives.

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