[Sussex] ext3 data loss

[brougham Baker]

Hello everybody,

Been here a while and even made it to a moot or two, with Jon F and hoped i
could pick a brain or two.

The dog pulled out the power to my file server- old bit of junk but it does
well enough for me. It's a debian box and has been reliable until this
event.
Uname -a says
Linux wesley 2.4.20-bf2.4 #1 Wed Dec 25 13:17:08 UTC 2002 i686 unknown

When it came back there were some errors on /dev/hda1 which were fixed and
then i rebooted again as /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdd1 didn't mount.

This time /dev/hdc1 mounted properly but /dev/hdd1 didn't and hasn't ever
since. I booted the box with a knoppix cd and tried to mount the disk read
only- it said there were no valid partitions on hdd. I tried took an image
of the drive to another disk to keep that safe and then tried a couple of
read only tools on the desk (i forget which, it was a few months ago), the
drive has sat next to the monitor since then.

I then booted a Ultimate Boot CD for Windows CD (based on bart but with
loads of other tools) and ran one of the SMART read only tools- this passed
saying no errors, i then ran the IBM fitness tool from the Ultimate Boot CD
(dos) including a full read of the whole disk- this also passed. I can
presume from this that the disk is physically fit and that only the
partition info is screwed.

The drives are mounted like this-
/dev/hda1       /               ext2    errors=remount-ro       0       1
/dev/hda2       none            swap    sw                      0       0
<snip>
/dev/hdc1       /data   ext3    defaults                        0       2
/dev/hdd1       /data/video     ext3    defaults                0       2

I got a list of the superblocks and tried them all- all of which said they
were invalid. I then booted back into knoppix and looked at the sectors on
the disk- my files are there.

I then tried Stellar Phoenix for Linux and that found several partitions but
none where the correct ones- some started a little far in and some where
wildly off. Then there was another tool that ran under windows but was
designed for ext2/3 partitions but that kept crashing and never finished the
scan- which took over 20 hours.

All my movies/series are on there (no pr0n)- is there anything else i can
do?

Brougham