lost a drive?

[Tony Nelson]

At 3:38 PM -0700 9/23/06, Dave Stevens wrote:
>Quoting Keith <ac7xc1nx at gmail.com>:
  ...
>  >  Obtain the rescue CD, boot without mounting the partition and do a
>  > fsck.ext3 /dev/hd## with the hard drive unmounted.
>  >
>
>Thanks but no joy. I get:
>
>e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
>e2fsck: Bad magic number in superblock while trying to open /dev/hdb2
>The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
>filesystem.
>If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap
>or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt and you might try
>running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
>e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
>
>So I've done that and get the same message repeatedly with or without the -b
>parameter. Are there other alternate superblocks? copies? data recovery
>utilities?

There are lots of alternate superblocks.  See man e2fsck and man 
mke2fs with reference to -b -n.
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