Re: Hard drive problems

Tam <taminglis@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Hi.

I'm having a problem with an IDE 250gb drive (used primarily for mp3).

The problems started around 2 weeks ago when my niece knocked over the
computer that contained the drive. This wrote off a 40gb drive that
the OS was on (Fedora 7). I used another 40gb drive (that I knew was
slightly shaky) and reinstalled the OS.

The 250gb appeared to be OK and undamaged... After reinstalling I
could mount the drive in the desired location (/mnt/mp3) with the
command "mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mp3" and everything appeared to
be fine.

However, as I was aware, the shaky/dodgy 40gb drive gave up the ghost
after around a week and died. By this time Fedora 8 was out so I
bought a new drive, downloaded F8, installed etc and rebooted.

Any now I cannot mount the partition/drive on the 250. When I try to
do so all I can get from it are two directories "grub" and "lost
+found" and some files (config, initrd, System.map, vmlinuz).

The drive appears to be made up of (default layout on install) three
partitions.. sdb, sdb1 and sdb2. By mounting sdb1 I get the
directories/files detailed above and if I try to mount the other two
(sdb and sdb2) I get the following error "mount: wrong fs type, bad
option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb2".

Make sure you are mounting what you think you are. It is possible
that the device names have shuffled with the new Fedora version. You
can find a list of all partitions in /proc/partitions.

Is there anything I can do to retreive my mp3? Its taken a long time
to build up that collection and Im hesitant to wipe the drive if it
can be recovered. So this mail can be summed up in one word....
"Help".

Maybe now you'll consider making backups...

--
Måns Rullgård
mans@xxxxxxxxx
.

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