[SLE] Recover Deleted Files?

Hi Guys,

I am in serious strife and I could really use some advice.

Scenario: 2 x 120Gb HDD
hda1 - reiserfs SuSE 10.1 \
hda2 - reiserfs SuSE 10.1 \home
hda3 - FAT32 (No Windows - just common storage)
hdb1 - swap
hdb2 - reiserfs SuSE 9.3

I wanted to check out 10.1, so I wiped the original Windows partition on
hda and installed the default 10.1 options on hda1 & 2. After reading
the many negative postings here and my own disappointment, I was about
to ditch 10.1 in the too hard basket when I stumbled on Ralph Ellis's
post about the "packagemanagement-update-test" fix. So I thought "What
the heck" I've got nothing to loose and "bingo" it worked. My previous
stuffing around had left me with a fairly crappy user configuration, so
I created a dummy user, switched to root and attempted to deleted my
original 10.1 user account, with delete user data checked :_((

What I forgotten was that I had copied some of my 9.3 home stuff over to
my 10.1 home directory and I now have 2 completely empty partitions
(namely hda2 - FAT32 and hdb2 reiserfs). I am not that bothered about
the 9.3 stuff that was on hdb2 (anything of importance was backed up),
but there were a few really important things on the FAT32 partition that
I would, if possible, like to recover.

Although I have never used (or needed) it before, I am aware that there
is recovery software out there. Can anyone here suggest or recommend a
package (open source or commercial, I don't care) that might help get me
out of this predicament.

Thanks in advance.

Dave



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