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usman idrees
October 22nd, 2008, 12:28 PM
hi
last night i tried to change my drive names so i dont know what happened,now i can not see my data ???hheheh ...so in the morning the computer started with no booting ? i tried to fix it with fsck and gave this command : fsck /dev/sda1 and sda2 , the message was
the file system size (according to super block) is 4883752
the physical size of the device is 4646793 blocks.either the superblock or the partitiontable is likely to be corrupt
so then i tried testdisk to fix this but invain ??? can any body help me ??

eternalnewbee
October 22nd, 2008, 12:56 PM
Did you make backups before this happened?

Ducatiboy Stu
October 22nd, 2008, 01:31 PM
you may need to use foremost


https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery