[NCLUG] Hard disk failure

[dobbster]

BluKnight wrote:
> 
> > Any thoughts about what might have gone wrong?  Do I have any hope for
> > recovery?
> 
> Have you tried booting with your rescue disk, and doing a recover using the
> backup superblock?  (fsck -b 8193 /dev/whatever)
> 
> It's possible your master superblock bit the big one...  You may be able to
> recover from a backup (the above line assumes you used some default
> configs, it should work in 99% of the cases I come across)
> 
> --mec

I have already tried this out, and I received the same error:  "Bad magic number
in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda".

Chris Hardy earlier mentioned a site which has some interesting utilities.  One
finds all of the superblocks on a disk.  I might give this a try...

Thanks for the help,

Mark (dobbster at dobbster.com)