Re: [LUG] Disk Corruption

[John Daragon <john@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Ellis wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have managed to some how corrupt my Linux drive.
>
> I shut down out of linux then the next time I booted it failed to load
> the GUI & was saying about running fsck. Which I did but it made no
> differnce.
>
> Now it doesn't even get that far grub starts to load then I get:
>
> Grub Loading, please wait
> Error 17

I'm afraid that might be a very sick disk. Grub appears to be 
complaining that it doesn't recognise the partition type...

From :

 http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Troubleshooting

17 : Cannot mount selected partition
    This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the 
filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.

You might be able to connect this disk to another linux box or boot from 
an install/recovery disk and use something like

http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart

If the worst comes to the worst, you could attach the disk to another 
box, dd it to an image file and poke around with a hex editor...

Which isn't pleasant, but has saved a disk for me before now.

jd

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