Hi,

I am trying to recover files from my hard drive, because Windows won't boot anymore. I tried re-partitioning, and it failed, and left me with Windows not working.

When I click on hda2, it tells me:
wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2

missing codepage or other error

So, then I tried: mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
and it still says "wrong fs type..."

So I entered the command that lets me see all the partitions, and hda2 was there, and it showed the right size of it and that it was ntfs.

Does anyone know how I can mount this device so that I can copy the files to a cd and abe on my way?

How exactly did you try re-partitioning? With what software? Which partitions did you try to re-partition? I would think this could have messed up the partition table on the disk, but since Knoppix can find it, maybe not.

How many hard-drives do you have? Just hda?

I used Partition Magic 8.0 to re-partition. I just resized C: There were only two partitions, C: and some Dell utility partition. There is only one hard drive. It's not that Knoppix can't find it, because it showed me that it could see it, but it couldn't mount it.

i think, that most likely partition magic did not fry the partition table on hda, but it fried the filesystem on hda2, so you cant mount hda2 as ntfs, because it isnt ntfs nor vfat nor ext3 nor whatever anymore, just a bunch of random-byte garbage.
the fact that it is shown as ntfs does not neccessarily mean that it still *contains* a valid ntfs filesystem. it just means that the partition is *marked* as containing ntfs/hpfs, probably.
that's another great job, partition magic!
sorry about your data, lad.

When you ask PM to check the NTFS partition for errors, does it find any errors?

Nevermind, after reading the one guy's post, I just re-formatted. Thanks though.