Beso, thanks for the links, I've already started reading. I've also got a new drive to copy the recovered data (if any, cross fingers...)
Most of the resources I've read up to now imply that e.g. /dev/sdc1 is detected and a 'bad superblock' message displayed when attempting to mount. In my case the kernel is unable to detect /dev/sdc1, after the long list of read errors below it ends up with only /dev/sdc. Does this look like superblock issue, or something worse? thanks, raffaele Beso wrote: > before doing something on the disk first, read all and then take a > decision on which options may help you. on my reiserfs filesystem, the > included utils were enough to let me recover about 98% of the data after > the full index rebuild. if you've journaled your filesystem, then i > think that you should be able to recover it. also, it may only be a > problem of superblock and in that case the second link might help you > more. anyway, get a disk that can contain all the data that there was on > the failed one, since you wouldn't want to do stuff on it to avoid loss > of data. > try reading this (the ext2/3 part): > http://edseek.com/archives/2004/02/25/ext3-filesystem-bad-superblock-recovery/ > and this: > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-569462-highlight-ext3+recover.html > or you might try this utility: > http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec > > 2007/11/19, Raffaele BELARDI <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: > > Yesterday evening I had one 250Gb SATA disk Maxtor MaXLine Plus II fail. > The drive is formatted as ext3, single partition (sdc1), no RAID, used > as an archive of divx movies, completely full with data. Motherboard is > ASUS M2NPV-VM (Nvidia Nforce 430 chipset), I can easily mount it on an > ASUS K8V SE (Via K8T800 chipset) if it helps. > > At boot the syslog shows (more or less): > > I/O buffer read error: logical block 0 > I/O buffer read error: logical block 1 > > Any attempt to mount /dev/sdc1 results in tens of the above message > (plus other details I don't remember right now) and finally fails. > > fdisk -l shows the partition table as it should be. > > It was late night so I gave up. Are there any chances to recover my data > by e.g. specifying a different superblock (whatever that is)? Any links > to help me? > > thanks, > > raffaele > > PS I bought the drive in 2005 and I've used it only to archive movies, > so very little. It' the last Maxtor I buy (ok, also because it's Seagate > now..) > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailing list > > > > > -- > dott. ing. beso -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
