New to the but not linux

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I guess I need to take this as "good" and "bad" news. I did give both of 
these commands a try and keep getting the same error over and over, 'bad 
superblock'. So I take it that likely means the bad news is the data on 
the drive is likely gone, good news that I know how to prevent it in the 
future?

The problem occurred after the power supply committed suicide. 
Everything else (except this new 250 gig drive) is working just fine. As 
a matter of fact the bios still recognizes the drive and when I use 
webmin to look at the hard drives I have the option of creating a new 
partition but have opted not to in hopes I might still be able to 
reclaim the data before attempting repartitioning.

Any other suggestions before I bite the bullet and repartition? Anybody?

Uncle Jim wrote:

> The command "tune2fs -l" will tell you what the blocksize is for a partition.  If
> you have a good partition created at about the same time you could use this to
> make a first guess at the blocksize for the bad partition.
> 
>>From here it is a lot of trial and error and luck.  Kinda makes you want to go
> write down a list of backup superblocks for your favorite partitions, doesn't it?


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