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| Thread ID: 91878 | 2008-07-21 10:43:00 | Repair bad linux filesystem that can't be mounted | Agent_24 (57) | Press F1 |
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| 690907 | 2008-07-21 10:43:00 | I have a hard drive with some kind of linux on it (not sure what) which I want to read (but can't) From the errors I get, it seems to be using ext2 filesystem. If I try to boot from the drive, LILO loads and then I get this menu: www.imagef1.net.nz None of the options work. If I try to load the first one I get this: www.imagef1.net.nz looking at the drive in ubuntu live, I see this: www.imagef1.net.nz Is there any way to fix this? or is the filesystem completely wrecked? Oh and does anyone know what distro this is from looking at the splashscreen? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 690908 | 2008-07-21 10:56:00 | It looks like Mandriva (Mandrake) from around 2004 in time. You can see the reference to Red Hat nash version 3.5.18-mdk. Can you mount hda1 from the Ubuntu disk and run any commands like fdisk -l on it? |
Jen (38) | ||
| 690909 | 2008-07-21 11:35:00 | I can't mount it. I just get an error. Mount: wrong fs type (I specified ext2), bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, missing codepage or other error |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 690910 | 2008-07-22 10:00:00 | You will probably get the same result but I wonder if it would be worth trying to access it from (say) a Knoppix boot disk? | johnd (85) | ||
| 690911 | 2008-07-22 10:45:00 | fdisk -l doesn't require mounting the disk first. What is the output for this command? Note that you run it on the drive itself (e.g. /dev/hda), not on the partition. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 690912 | 2008-07-22 12:19:00 | I gave up, and since I don't actually care for what's on the drive I just tried reformatting it - with a LOT of errors, then when I rebooted the PC told me that SMART detected an imminent failure - so out it goes :badpc: | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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