Restart error possibly due to generic upgrade

[ayberkoktay]

Hi everybody;

I firstly wanted to say thank you because allthought yhis is my first time writing in the forum. I had read alot befor. Thanks for the share of knowledge.

I have been using ubuntu for nearly a year. I have been using the 9.10 release untill this morning. Yesturday there was a update ( ı think generic ... .17) and ı donwloaded it. After a hour I went to bed without a restart.
This morning I tried to open my pc and there was no responce. I saw the ubuntu sign and after that total darkness for minutes.

I tried every thig I could ( which is not much because I am a newbee ) I tried reaching my files( some very important files) by live cd( ubuntu) ı couldnt. I could see my windows partition but not ubuntu. I tried slax live cd. I got an error like this
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Type. Unmounted hard Disk Volume

Location: unmounted hard disk volume

/media (system)

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda5,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
Size: In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

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I dont know what to do
I really want reach those files


I should remind you that I am not a genıous on linux and even the simple stuff on terminal am not very good.

I would apprecıate ıf you gıve me some help:(

[tachuela]

Boot your Live CD; go to the Terminal and post:

sudo fdisk -lu

[ayberkoktay]

thanks for your reply ı dıd

fdisk -lu

This ıs the result
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Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9474ad7e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 52789589 26394763+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 2034 MB, 2034237440 bytes
63 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1017 cylinders, total 3973120 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0005de30

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 62 3972401 1986170 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

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ı also trıed test dısk ıt found the drıve but ı thınk

ı got thıs
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Disk /dev/sda - 160 GB / 149 GiB - CHS 19458 255 63

Partition Start End Size in sectors

1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 3285 254 63 52789527
2 E extended LBA 3286 0 1 19456 254 63 259787115
5 L Linux 3286 1 1 18794 254 63 249152022
6 L Linux Swap 18795 1 1 19456 254 63 10634967
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ı dıd deeper search on test dısk ı got thıs
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Disk /dev/sda - 160 GB / 149 GiB - CHS 19458 255 63

The harddisk (160 GB / 149 GiB) seems too small! (< 3902167 TB / 3549000 TiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection...

The following partition can't be recovered:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
HFS 7400 0 1 1965064465 54 39 632127066

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Disk /dev/sda - 160 GB / 149 GiB - CHS 19458 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
D HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 3285 254 49 52789513
D HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 19455 254 63 312560577
D HPFS - NTFS 0 1 15 3285 254 63 52789513
D HPFS - NTFS 12 223 20 19457 21 20 312371200
D Linux 3286 1 1 18794 254 57 249152016
D Linux Swap 18795 1 1 19456 254 40 10634944


Structure: Ok. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.
Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics:
*=Primary bootable P=Primary L=Logical E=Extended D=Deleted
Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type, P: list files,
Enter: to continue
EXT3 Large file Sparse superblock, 127 GB / 118 GiB

what should ı do now??