New to the but not linux

[lowell]

Is it worth the cost a data recovery company would charge you; they can do 
just about anything, I've heard...

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, docv wrote:

> 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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