before doing something on the disk first, read all and then take a decision on which options may help you. on my reiserfs filesystem, the included utils were enough to let me recover about 98% of the data after the full index rebuild. if you've journaled your filesystem, then i think that you should be able to recover it. also, it may only be a problem of superblock and in that case the second link might help you more. anyway, get a disk that can contain all the data that there was on the failed one, since you wouldn't want to do stuff on it to avoid loss of data.
<br>try reading this (the ext2/3 part):<br><a href="http://edseek.com/archives/2004/02/25/ext3-filesystem-bad-superblock-recovery/">http://edseek.com/archives/2004/02/25/ext3-filesystem-bad-superblock-recovery/</a><br>and this:
<br><a href="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-569462-highlight-ext3+recover.html">http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-569462-highlight-ext3+recover.html</a><br>or you might try this utility:<br><a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec">
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec</a><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/11/19, Raffaele BELARDI &lt;<a href="mailto:raffaele.belardi@st.com">raffaele.belardi@st.com</a>&gt;:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yesterday evening I had one 250Gb SATA disk Maxtor MaXLine Plus II fail.<br>The drive is formatted as ext3, single partition (sdc1), no RAID, used<br>as an archive of divx movies, completely full with data. Motherboard is
<br>ASUS M2NPV-VM (Nvidia Nforce 430 chipset), I can easily mount it on an<br>ASUS K8V SE (Via K8T800 chipset) if it helps.<br><br>At boot the syslog shows (more or less):<br><br>I/O buffer read error: logical block 0<br>
I/O buffer read error: logical block 1<br><br>Any attempt to mount /dev/sdc1 results in tens of the above message<br>(plus other details I don&#39;t remember right now) and finally fails.<br><br>fdisk -l shows the partition table as it should be.
<br><br>It was late night so I gave up. Are there any chances to recover my data<br>by e.g. specifying a different superblock (whatever that is)? Any links<br>to help me?<br><br>thanks,<br><br>raffaele<br><br>PS I bought the drive in 2005 and I&#39;ve used it only to archive movies,
<br>so very little. It&#39; the last Maxtor I buy (ok, also because it&#39;s Seagate<br>now..)<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org">gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>dott. ing. beso