Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-06 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 14:55 -0400, Jim wrote: > Then I did a e2fsck /dev/sda2 it took e2fsck about 45 mins to fix the > sda2 partition , One of Two users /home directories was totally gone , > the one tjhat was being used at CRASH time. But the one that was not > being used and had the important

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-06 Thread Mike Wright
On 07/06/2012 03:40 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Mike Wright wrote: After moving the drive to another machine I tried a little forensics: the entire contents of the /boot partition had disappeared. On a hunch I "tree"ed lost+found and found many leafless branches but one tha

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-06 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Mike Wright wrote: After moving the drive to another machine I tried a little forensics: the entire contents of the /boot partition had disappeared. On a hunch I "tree"ed lost+found and found many leafless branches but one that had the entire contents of /boot. Copied eve

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-06 Thread Jim
On 07/06/2012 04:41 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On 07/06/2012 02:13 PM, Jim wrote: THANK GOD FOR THE GUYS THAT DEVELOPEÂ E2FSCK. Â You ought to back everything up on an external drive for this person. I'am going to put it on my backup hard drive and take it over to my friends house and pu

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-06 Thread Mike Wright
On 07/06/2012 01:41 PM, Steven Stern wrote: Did anything show up in the /lost+found directory? Good advice. I had a box boot for the specified number of times to require an fsck. I ended up with a box that wouldn't boot. After moving the drive to another machine I tried a little forensics

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-06 Thread Steven Stern
On 07/06/2012 02:13 PM, Jim wrote: >> >> >> THANK GOD FOR THE GUYS THAT DEVELOPEÂ E2FSCK. >> >> Â >> You ought to back everything up on an external drive for this person. >> >> > I'am going to put it on my backup hard drive and take it over to my > friends house and put it onto his brand new

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-06 Thread Joe Wulf
Good for you.  Glad you achieved some lessons learned and success in getting some data back! Now you can have a great weekend! > > From: Jim >To: Community support for Fedora users >Sent: Friday, July 6, 2012 3:13 PM >Subject: Re: SOLVED: sd

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-06 Thread Jim
On 07/06/2012 03:01 PM, Richard Vickery wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Jim > wrote: Will guys I want to thank all of you that help me on this project. This computer crashed four days after I gave it to my friend ,he said he just exited from pla

Re: SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-06 Thread Richard Vickery
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Jim wrote: > Will guys I want to thank all of you that help me on this project. > > This computer crashed four days after I gave it to my friend ,he said he > just exited from playing his Games to logging onto the internet with > Firefox. and something popped up

SOLVED: sda2 is corrupted

2012-07-06 Thread Jim
Will guys I want to thank all of you that help me on this project. This computer crashed four days after I gave it to my friend ,he said he just exited from playing his Games to logging onto the internet with Firefox. and something popped up about robo.. and he could not restart comput