koga
July 22nd, 2008, 11:56 AM
Hi, im in need of a little help.
I was playing around trying to install ubuntu on a usb stick and without paying enough attention while following a how-to i think i broke my Hardy Heron install with FDISK commands from the terminal. I was trying to format the usb stick to get a boot loader working and stuffed things up. When i restarted my pc it came up with "no operating system installed" or something similar.
I have tried the Super Grub boot disk and G-live/testdisk for the past few hours with no joy. I have two hard disks in my pc, a 250g which had ubuntu installed and a 80g with XP. I can see both these disk's from the "Places" menu when i run from the live cd but i cannot mount my ubuntu disk to recover my data (i can mount and access the XP drive though).
When i try to mount the ubuntu drive i get the following error message.
"Cannot mount volume"
"Details"
"mount:wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. In some cases useful info is found in syslog -try dmesg tail or so"
Any help would be really appreciated and if i need to give some more info or explain anything just say so.
Cheers,
I was playing around trying to install ubuntu on a usb stick and without paying enough attention while following a how-to i think i broke my Hardy Heron install with FDISK commands from the terminal. I was trying to format the usb stick to get a boot loader working and stuffed things up. When i restarted my pc it came up with "no operating system installed" or something similar.
I have tried the Super Grub boot disk and G-live/testdisk for the past few hours with no joy. I have two hard disks in my pc, a 250g which had ubuntu installed and a 80g with XP. I can see both these disk's from the "Places" menu when i run from the live cd but i cannot mount my ubuntu disk to recover my data (i can mount and access the XP drive though).
When i try to mount the ubuntu drive i get the following error message.
"Cannot mount volume"
"Details"
"mount:wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error. In some cases useful info is found in syslog -try dmesg tail or so"
Any help would be really appreciated and if i need to give some more info or explain anything just say so.
Cheers,