Topic: Reparing partition?

[trenskow]

Hi there all
after a reinstall, i wanted to use my backup data wich i have on /dev/hdd1

When i try to mount it it get this error
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd1,
       or too many mounted file systems
       (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
       ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

i have tried with ext2 and ext3
when i run
sdisk -lg i get this error
/dev/hdd: 39870 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track

Disk /dev/hdd: 39870 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track

sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
 /dev/hdd: unrecognized partition

Any way to restore this partition?

[meanpenguin]

Where was the "backup" hd before?
Was it in an another linux box?
Was it in a Windows Box (try mount -t vfat ...)

check out /var/log/dmsg and /var/log/messages
to verify what device name is being assigned

what do you get when you do a
    fdisk /dev/(device name from log file)

Ed