hi there

i got this hdd of which partittons have been corrupted

this it the O/P i get in my log
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FAT: Filesystem panic (dev hdc5)
fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0)

File system has been set read-only
FAT: bogus logical sector size 514

VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdc6.
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and this while mounting
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[root@gaurav lfs]# mount /dev/hdc5 /mnt/cdrom/
mount: /dev/hdc5: can't read superblock
[root@gaurav lfs]# mount /dev/hdc6 /mnt/cdrom/
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[root@gaurav lfs]# mount /dev/hdc7 /mnt/cdrom/
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[root@gaurav lfs]# mount -t vfat /dev/hdc7 /mnt/cdrom/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc7,
or too many mounted file systems
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i tried fsck also
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[root@gaurav lfs]# fsck.vfat /dev/hdc6
dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN
File system has -46 clusters but only space for 131582 FAT entries.
[root@gaurav lfs]# fsck.vfat -y /dev/hdc6
dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN
File system has -46 clusters but only space for 131582 FAT entries.
[root@gaurav lfs]# fsck.vfat -f /dev/hdc6
dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN
File system has -46 clusters but only space for 131582 FAT entries.
[root@gaurav lfs]# fsck.vfat -f /dev/hdc6
dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN
File system has -46 clusters but only space for 131582 FAT entries.
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i do not know how to recover this

any suggestions ???


regards

Since it is a FAT filesystem you could try to boot from a DOS or DRDOS diskette and see what that says about the partition. You MIGHT be able to recover it with one of the many DOSutilities around. Ranish Partition manager might help.