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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does it come up with a shell prompt at all?
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>if so you may be able to run fsck</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>if the superblock is corrupted,, you may be able to
get access to a back-up superblock by running</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>fsck -t ext2 -b 8193 /dev/fubar</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is right out of my Red Hat 'Unleashed'
guide, I have used it before to recover succsessfully from a similar
situation.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Failing that you may have to fdisk and
reformat!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you want to re-format the drive you can run
fdisk under windows and to remove the master boot record</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>run fdisk /mbr</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=dagdamor@optushome.com.au
href="mailto:dagdamor@optushome.com.au">Lincoln Smith</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=melbwireless@wireless.org.au
href="mailto:melbwireless@wireless.org.au">MelbWireless</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 08, 2003 3:15
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [MLB-WIRELESS] HDD
question</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Heya</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have this 2GB laptop drive that used to be the
system disk for my firewall. One day it got rebooted by accident, and it
cracked the @#*@ saying it was missing a superblock, then it just refused to
even look at the disk. Suffice to say it seems to be no longer
useable. No computer or OS will recognise it (although it shows up in
the BIOS). Windows won't look at it while linux hangs on the
partition listing during Kernel startup. That said when i run the
IBM disk tool on it (It's an IBM drive) it says the drive is fine. It
reads and writes to it with no problems. I can even low level
format it and zero all the contents, check for bad sectors you name it it
works.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's got me stumped...Any ideas?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lincoln Smith<BR><A
href="mailto:dagdamor@optushome.com.au">dagdamor@optushome.com.au</A></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>