Scott et al, >> 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.
testdisk (apt-get install testdisk) has worked for me and others in the LinuxSA community as well... DSL -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
