Yep, it looks pretty grim. The IDE cable to my music drive had a frayed end, and now this morning on boot, fsck said "no such file or directory when trying to open /dev/sdd1. The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device>". Running fsck manually gives the same message. Parted and fdisk no longer see sdd at all. It's just gone. I've tried swapping it out and putting a different drive in there and it detects fine, and the bad drive doesn't work no matter where I try it (in another machine and in a USB enclosure) so I don't think it's the connection. I am at a total loss. Does anyone have any advice in this situation? Everything I know about data recovery I've learned in the last (completely fruitless) 12 hours, so I may well be missing an obvious trick. God, I hope so. -pete -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080922/f7eac89e/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080922/f7eac89e/attachment-0001.pgp