Need Help - system crash

[NoOp]

On 07/29/2011 02:06 PM, ANDY wrote:
> Using LiveCD 10.04 and trying to access the drive, I get syslog errors like
> '[sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed',
> 'end_request; I/O error, dev sda, sector 33890987' and 'JBD: Failed to read
> block at offset 9303'.
> 
> So its apparent the filesystem is pooched to some degree.
> 
> I might need methods to manually recover the image and mine for files.

Maybe a back superblock? You could try e2fsck -b[1], or with gparted on
10.04, right click the partion & select 'Check'. If those don't work,
then I'd head for testdisk & photorec:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk


[1]

$ man e2fsck