Windows crash destroyed my linux partitions.

[kimi]

one of my computers dual boots to windows 98 so i can play games, and as i was playing on it a few nights ago, it crashed hard.. big surprise . so i just turned it off not really worrying about it, because i was in windows, and i care very little about the data there.
However to my surprise, when i turned the machine of, it came up with a grub error 17, which is a cannot boot partition error, now that made me a little worried, so i went and got my trusty livecd and proceded to boot up that.
my partition structure was as follows:
hda1 = 40gig windows(fat32)
hda2 = 100meg ext3 boot
hda3 = 512 swap
hda4 = 40gig reiserfs root
i can mount the windows partition fine and the data there appears unscathed
however both the boot directory and my root partition are both scrambled i tried fsck.ext3 and reiserfsck but neither worked.
some of the data there is quite important, otherwise i would just wipe it and start clean :/, so i would like to recover it if possible.
does anyone have any ideas?

[dvc5]

I dunno about your ext3 partition, but you can try reiserfsck on your root partition. Unfortunately I had a reiserfs crash about 5 months ago and when I used reiserfsck to fix it, it dumped everything in journal-numbered folders in my /lost+found/ directory. So if it does that for you, just look in that directory. You'll have to rename and move the folders back based on what's inside them, since they'll be labeled by journal-tags.
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[truekaiser]

it might of screwed with your mbr, i have had that happen before on my windows desktop. a crash and a bad one at that if it related to the hard disks it might blow the mbr. though it might just be me because i am useing the nforce2 ide drivers....