[HELP!] e2fsck fails with my ext3partition

[jitou]

Suddenly, my RHL9 system stopped working.
60GB Maxtor disk has 3 partitions:
- /dev/hda1
- swap
- /dev/hda2

/dev/hda2 seems to be having problem, while /dev/hda1 can be accessed normally.

I tried
# e2fsck -y /dev/hda2
but ended in
"e2fsck: e2fsck_read_bitmaps: illegal bitmap block(s) for /"

Could someone pleeeease help me?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Your partition is quite dead.

if e2fsck can't fix it, it really can't be fixed.

SEP

[fret]

Did you try a "badblocks /dev/hda2" ? and/or try a "dmesg | grep -i ext[2-3]"
Maybe you've HW pbl on you HDD/controler.

That should give you clues about the trouble. Probably an HW issue...

[jitou]

Thanks, Steven, fret, but I'm not givin up yet.
I'll go get a new HDD tomorrow, and try to
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/sda1 bs=512 conv=noerror,sync
in hoping to save data from the old disk.

[jitou]

Explore2fs saved my files!
After mounting the disk as USB external disk on my Windows PC, I used Explore2fs to read most of the files and to save them on my Windows PC.
Thanks anyway.