Thanks a lot Jill and Roger, i unplugged the hd and re-plugged it in and
all are fine. ... so ... never thought this could happen.
thanks again.
regards
J Ai
Rowling, Jill wrote:
Sorry to rain on your parade, but most likely you have a hardware fault.
If you open up the box, with the power off, check that the cables are all in
place.
I have seen a connector fall off a Dell system once.
Cheers,
Jill.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Ai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 May 2005 4:13 PM
To: Sydney Linux User Group
Subject: [SLUG] urgent! Hard disc dissapeared.
I was doing some recording using audacity, when i tried to save a
project, the system froze and i could not switch to a console to shut
the machine down, so i had to use the reset button and after this my
system could not boot up anymore, it could not a mount the hard disk
which i mount to /home ... the error message reads
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem
(and not swap of ufs or something else), then the superblock is currupt, and
you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193
<device>
then i log into the rescue mode and the /dev/hdb1 is not there. what is
going on here? googling didn't give me much more information.
i have all my data on this disk and only have a partial backup ... can
anyone please help me?
thanks a lot
urgent! Hard disc disappeared.
J Ai
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