Hello! After a power outage I was not home and the backup power didn't hold up, the computer got turned off!

So when I was back home I tried to boot it up, it's a Pentium D 840 4GB Ram that runs about 4 Game Servers such as Counter-Strike, Left 4 Dead and others, it has been rock solid for at least six months until now.

It hangs up at Fedora screen while loading the [|||||||::::] and then returns an empty prompt.

I tried to boot through Live CD but fdisk -l does not list any partitions on this drive and here is the output of the gnome information on the disk:

The S.M.A.R.T is ok, it has 31 reallocated sectors but it has been like this since 2005 and I believe it was caused by a faulty IDE Cable, other than that the HDD passes all tests and this atribute has never changed.

I've tried fsdk but it says it could not find /dev/hda

My backups are on a 320GB NTFS HD, sure it works but it's quite old and a lot of work has been done around the files on the 160GB drive such as my web site (I got plenty of upstream bandwidth, 36 down/12 up so I like to host some servers).

I would appreciate any help!

Thank you

Quick update on the Issue.

I am so nervous I forgot to make it as the root.

The partitions are all spread around in dev/dm-1 /dm-2 dm-3

When I try to use fsck it comes up with "Bad Magic Number in Superblock " Any ideas on how to fix it ?

You could use a binary/hex editor to re-write the magic number if that's all that's missing. It's really no big deal. Your partitions and data are probably still there; you just need to repair your partition table. IMO you need to firstly try the gpart utility (it means 'guess partition') and comes on the Knoppix CD/DVD and probably not a few rescue disks. Run gpart and hopefully that alone should fix your disk. It would be the first thing I personally would try.

Thinking long term; most ups now can communicate with the pc(serial/usb). It is usually a pretty easy thing to set the machine up to shut down cleanly before the ups runs out of power.