On 25 Aug 2006, Scott Ragen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My PC dual boots XP and Kubuntu. > > > > While trying to reformat a 1 gb Memory Stick/Flash Drive under XP I > > somehow stuffed a SATA HD by apparently renaming it and formatting it, > > though as it didn't sit there forever formatting, I'm guessing that I > > just wiped the partition table somehow. > > > > When I boot Kubuntu I get the message:- > > > > "The Superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > > filesystem. Run e2fsck with an alternative superblock:- > > > > e2fsck -b 8193 <device> > > > If allyou did was wipe the partition table, you could try booting from a > rescue cd that contains gnu parted, and try rescuing it. > I have never used this, so I can't guarentee its success. If possible, you > may want to dd the whole drive to a file on another drive.
I've used gpart successfully in the past to fix this kind of thing: http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ -- Martin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
