(clug-talk) Partition Disaster!!!!!!

[Johnny Stork]

It looks like I have done some serious damage to a 50gb partition on a new 60gb IDE drive. Around a week ago I noticed some errors showing up on the console. Basically that hdb "lost interupt" or something simliar (didnt get logged to /var/log/messages). There were also some messages from the drive about seek_error etc and then "resetting" and then all would be ok. I was so busy it took me a day or so before I had the chance to look at it, but by then that drive seemed to lock up. Since it was a new drive I figured it was a loose/bad cable or power connector (seen simliar behavior from such a cause) and so shut down the machine and re-connected/checked all cables. One was pulled out a little. But on re-boot I got the "Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb1" etc etc And no combination of fsck.ext3 -b 8193 /dev/hdb1 (with16385, 24577 etc superblock) will work. I was about a week before mirroring this partition, and had not setup any sort of backup routine so right now I have lost over 4000 MP3's which were all ripped from my own CD's. An incredible amout of time and effort. So does anyone have any other suggestions on how I could recover this partition? btw: No errors have showed up since from that drive and so I beleive it is NOT a hard drive problem and was related to the loose cable. ________________________________ Open Enterprise Solutions Open Solutions for an Open World Johnny Stork, BA Calgary, AB Canada http://www.openenterprise.ca http://www.open-solutions.ca