SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

[Joe Wulf]

Good for you.  Glad you achieved some lessons learned and success in getting some data back!
Now you can have a great weekend!




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> From: Jim <binarynut at comcast.net>
>To: Community support for Fedora users <users at lists.fedoraproject.org> 
>Sent: Friday, July 6, 2012 3:13 PM
>Subject: Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted
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>On 07/06/2012 03:01 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
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>On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Jim <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>Will guys I want to thank all of you that help me on this project.
>>>
>>>This computer crashed four days after I gave it to my friend
            ,he said he just exited from playing his Games to logging
            onto the internet with Firefox. and something popped up
            about robo.......... and he could not restart computer.
>>>It would come up to "rescue grub" at bootup, I checked the
            partitions with gparted it changed the  / an /home
            partitions to "UNKNOWN".  It crashed two partitions
>>>
>>>I finally got the img of sda2 on to external hard drive
            26gb.
>>>
>>>Then I did a e2fsck /dev/sda2 it took e2fsck about 45 mins
            to fix the sda2 partition , One of Two users /home
            directories was totally gone , the one tjhat was being used
            at CRASH time.  But the one that was not being used and had
            the important data to be saved was still intact.
>>>
>>>I have never seen a Linux computer crashed this bad.
>>>
>>>
>>>THANK GOD FOR THE GUYS THAT DEVELOPE  E2FSCK. 
>>> 
>>>
>> 
>>You ought to back everything up on an external drive for this person.
>>
>>
I'am going to put it on my backup hard drive and take it over to my friends house and put it onto his brand new 500gb backup hard drive and let him pull off the files he needs.
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