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<p><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Hi,<br>
I connected my harddisk which had ext3 filesystem and some files archived in it
as slave device and issued "mkfs /dev/hdb2" accidentally.<br>
Immediately I issued Ctrl C and stopped the process. But before that it had
deleted some 100 Blocks. <br>
<br>
After that I am unable to boot that hard disk as primary device. The system is
asking me "please insert a valid boot device and press enter"<br>
<br>
I am even unable to connect it as a slave device and mount it. The mount is
saying bad super block information.<br>
<br>
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 mnt_pt/<br>
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb2,<br>
or too many mounted file systems<br>
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use<br>
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)<br>
<br>
Please tell me how can I recover my data.<br>
<br>
This disk is containing important data.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kapil Sampath</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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