I have a 160 gig drive (it had NTFS and ReiserFS partitions) on a dual boot system, slack 10 and XP. I almost never used XP because it was so cluttered, and I figured the best thing to do would be to reformat the windows system partition (completely different drive) and reinstall.

After reinstalling, I found that both the NTFS and reiser FS partitions on the 160 gig drive, which I didn't even install on, are gone, instead it says that the whole thing is one big raw partition 128 gigs large.

I can't read them in linux either.

Am I SOL here??? I had a LOT of really really important data on that disk, what can I do?

When you say you can't read them in linux. did you try fdisk /dev/hda

Yes. Of course. it now thinks it's a partition of type "Fat16 <32"

If I look at it with partition magic from windows, it just says "BAD".

I don't even have the individual partitions anymore, windows fucked them.

Sorry but it does sound like you are screwed.

By the way, you aren't the deadlymuffin from the mac days on hotline?