Hey, I didn't know exactly where to post this, so I'm posting it here.

I'm running slackware 10, with KDE 3.2. kernel 2.6.9

Yesterday. for the first time in 3 years, it crashed on me (and it wasn't because of something I did).

The first time I restarted it, it told me that the Ide controller failed, but with no optcode( or something similar).

I restarted it again, a few minutes later and it keeps telling me that I have a bad superblock, and there's an option selected that's not supported, (or something similar).

I figure that means my partition table and such is a bit messed up, but is there anyway for me to get the information off of that drive? I've got all my schoolwork and music on there and I'd like to save it if I could.

Does anyone know what I could do?

"I restarted it again, a few minutes later and it keeps telling me that I have a bad superblock, and there's an option selected that's not supported, (or something similar).

I figure that means my partition table and such is a bit messed up, but is there anyway for me to get the information off of that drive?"

The error message means that your file system is messed up, not your partition table. First try to fix it with fsck. Boot a rescue CD. If you are using Knoppix then umount all of the partitions which Knoppix mounts read only.
umount /dev/hda1 (and so on)
Then run fsck against every Linux partition except swap. Assuming that you use ext3 then:
fsck -t ext3 /dev/hda1 (and so on)


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Steve Stites

Well the hard drive died, but I have a few files: a report, and a few configuration files that I would really like to take off the computer. Is there anyway I can access the data on the hard drive?. all I really need is a simple editor like msdos used to have, Diskeditor. Is there anything like that for linux? maybe on the slackware10 rescue disk?