Does doing an fsck from the rescue console do any good. Else google for data recovery software in linux
On 8/21/10, Krishnan K <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > The SATA cable and Power cable of my hard disk were loosely connected. > I was running ubuntu 10.04 (lucid lynx) on my desktop. > > Due to a small movement the hard-disk physical connection (SATA / Power) got > disconnected. > Now, I'm not able to boot Ubuntu. I get the grub and when I select ubuntu, > I get an error saying that the root drive - /dev/sda5 cannot be mounted and > I'm > thrown into *initramfs* console like - > > *initramfs>* > > > > I then tried booting my system using a live cd and ran gparted > (Still not able to mount that drive) > > Using *gparted*, I tried checking filesystem for errors/consistency, but I > got the following error -> > > > *** (gpartedbin:4278): CRITICAL **: murrine_style_draw_box: assertion > `height >= -1' failed > > ** (gpartedbin:4278): CRITICAL **: murrine_style_draw_box: assertion `height >>= -1' failed* * > > ** (gpartedbin:4278): CRITICAL **: murrine_style_draw_box: assertion `height >>= -1' failed > > ** (gpartedbin:4278): CRITICAL **: murrine_style_draw_box: assertion `height >>= -1' failed > > ** (gpartedbin:4278): CRITICAL **: murrine_style_draw_box: assertion `height >>= -1' failed* * > > > Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on > /dev/sda5, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so* > > > I have some important files in this partition. Will I be able to recover the > files? > Will I have to re-install Ubuntu formatting the partition ? > > Please help. > > Thanks > > Krishnan > -- Anoop P Alias (PGP Key ID : 0x014F9953) GNU system administrator http://GnuSys.net _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
