2007/11/19, Raffaele BELARDI <raffaele.belardi@st.com>:
>
> Beso,
>
> thanks for the links, I've already started reading. I've also got a new
> drive to copy the recovered data (if any, cross fingers...)
>
> Most of the resources I've read up to now imply that e.g. /dev/sdc1 is
> detected and a 'bad superblock' message displayed when attempting to
> mount.
>
> In my case the kernel is unable to detect /dev/sdc1, after the long list
> of read errors below it ends up with only /dev/sdc.
>
> Does this look like superblock issue, or something worse?
>
> thanks,
>
> raffaele


try a df /dev/sdc and see if this recognizes something. if it gives you
something then you might really have a superblock issue that could be
corrected according to this link:
http://edseek.com/archives/2004/02/25/ext3-filesystem-bad-superblock-recovery/
.
if it wouldn't give you valid filesystem outputs, then maybe it's not a
superblock issue and it's a bit more complicated to recover from the
partition..