Re: ruined partition. Can data be recovered?

Birre wrote: 
On 2006-01-27 17:44, Leo (Bing) Whiteway wrote:

Birre wrote:

On 2006-01-27 08:19, Leo (Bing) Whiteway wrote:

My system is AMD 1600 XP with 512 megs ram, a 200 gig ide hard drive, an Aopen dvd/cd/rw and a D-link router/adsl modem.

I have been having troubles with my hard drive or cables or motherboard.
The problems with my hard drive were I was getting dma errors and often the drive could not be found by the bios.I replaced the 80 wire cable 6 times with no reliable results. I have now installed a 40 wire cable and it seems more reliable.

In trying to fix my problem I have somehow made a partition unreadable. 


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What is the output from fdisk -l /dev/hda

Do you really have 20 partitions on /dev/hda ?

/birre 


Yes and here it is.

Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 261 2096451 6 FAT16
/dev/hda2 262 2431 17430525 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 2432 4620 17583142+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 4621 24321 158248282+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4621 4685 522081 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 4686 5902 9775521 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 5903 7119 9775521 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 7120 8336 9775521 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 8337 9553 9775521 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 9554 10770 9775521 83 Linux
/dev/hda11 10771 11987 9775521 83 Linux
/dev/hda12 * 11988 13204 9775521 83 Linux
/dev/hda13 13205 14421 9775521 83 Linux
/dev/hda14 14422 15638 9775521 83 Linux
/dev/hda15 15639 16855 9775521 83 Linux
/dev/hda16 16856 18072 9775521 83 Linux
/dev/hda17 18073 19289 9775521 83 Linux
/dev/hda18 19290 20006 5759271 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda19 20007 22195 17583111 83 Linux
/dev/hda20 22196 24321 17077063+ 83 Linux



I use mostly reiserfs , so I don't know much about ext3, but it
looks as your journal superblock is broken.

Try to handle it as ext2, and see if fsck.ext2 works.
If it pass, you should be able to mount it as ext2, and save your data.

Then try to do tune2fs -j and see if you can build a new journal.

/birre 

Thank you. I will Use that info.


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