[SATLUG] Disk recovery

Bruce Dubbs bruce.dubbs at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 15:39:13 CDT 2007


I have a friend with a corrupted disk.  Evidently this is part of a
linksys backup system.  He removed the disk and put it into a PC.  After
working with him I found out it was:

Disk /dev/hdb:  81.9GB, 81964302336 Bytes
16 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track, 158816 Cylinders
Units = Cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device boot        Start        End        Blocks        ID      System
/dev/hdb1              2     158563      79915248        83      Linux
/dev/hdb2         158564     158816        127512        82      Linux
swap / Solaris

We tried running e2fsck but it couldn't find a valid superblock.  I had
him dump the block with the first superblock (2nd 1K block) and it was
all zeros.

Does anyone know if there something else to try?

  -- Bruce






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