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yes it is all to easy to trot this well worn advice out and sweep it under the carpet as solved.
but this is a drive i have used since new only as a usb connected external drive for occassional...

partially solved.
hit it one more time with
this time with two256mb swapfiles plus my 512MB ram
i can now access the files. 20G out of 35 G is now in " lost and found" folder without names to...

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# reiserfsck --rebuild-sb /dev/sdc3
reiserfsck 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)

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** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs...

hit it again:
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#reiserfsck --scan-whole-partition --rebuild-tree /dev/sdc3

Pass 1 (will try to insert 73412 leaves):
####### Pass 1 #######
Looking for allocable blocks .. finished...

debian tool alluded to above is reiserfsprogs_3.6.21-1_i386.deb
gparted also fails to "check" the partition but can now see it correctly with the debin tool installed.

now in puppeee4.4rc2 with the debian tools mentioned at http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/repairing-reiserfs-file-system-with-reiserfsck.html installed and using the code there too.

root@knx531:~# sudo reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/sda3
.....


####### Pass 2 #######

Pass 2:
0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100% left 0, 29 /sec...

just for something to do though i would check my reiserfs for errors.
it failed to complete checking and now cannot be accessed.
checking again and it will stop in the same place.
is there a...