2007/11/19, Raffaele BELARDI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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
try a df /dev/sdc and see if this recognizes something. if it gives you something then you might really have a superblock issue that could be corrected according to this link: http://edseek.com/archives/2004/02/25/ext3-filesystem-bad-superblock-recovery/ . if it wouldn't give you valid filesystem outputs, then maybe it's not a superblock issue and it's a bit more complicated to recover from the partition..
