Hard drive partition lost??

[Jeff Vian]

stevew at aui.com wrote:

>I am running FC1, with a maxtor 160GB HD installed.  I had just finished 
>moving data from an older HD that was making some funny sounds and throwing 
>some random errors. All was well.  Last night we lost power for several hours 
>and 1 machines UPS/shutdown system didn't power down the workstation. The 
>other 7 in our office did fine.  The power was out for several hours.  
>Anyway, I now have an unbootable partition with quite bit of unbacked up data 
>on it I am trying to recover.  In the past, whenever we would have a disk 
>problem I was always able to recover with tomsrt, e2fsck etc.  Sometimes it 
>took a little while, but I can't even get started on this one.  During the 
>booting of the machine it throws the following errors:
>
>hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=90895772, high=5, 
>low=7009692, sector=0
>end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 0
>... repeats 10 time
>kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
>
>I have commented the particular partition out of the fstab file so it isn't 
>even trying to mount it. When trying to mount it manually I get the usual:
>
>steve]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /data
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda3,
>       or too many mounted file systems
>
>e2fsck yields the following:
>steve]# /sbin/e2fsck /dev/hda3
>e2fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
>/sbin/e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read 
>while trying to open /dev/hda3
>Could this be a zero-length partition?
>
>We were set for the disk to mirror to another machine at 3 AM.  It never made 
>it.  I really need to get to the data if at all possible.  Any suggestions 
>would be much appreciated.
>
>Steve
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Try fsck with one of the alternate superblocks.

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