Re: a way to restore my hd ?

[Alan Cox]

> The memory I had was however somehow corrupt and after I got my new system
> booted up and used it a little it became shaky and then locked hard and I
> could do nothing but reset it. I suppose this was caused by the
> malfunctioning memory but I can't be sure, I know there has been problems
> with the via chipset also.

Nod

> debian:~# e2fsck /dev/hdb7
> e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> Corruption found in superblock.  (frags_per_group = 2147516416).

Try e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdb7

(and 16384, 32768)

This is a backup copy of the superblock.