Help. I think my boot sector craped out

[Stephen]

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk has been useful for me in the past.

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this the right command
>
> root at 1[hda1]# mount /dev/hda1 hda1
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
>       missing codepage or other error
>       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>       dmesg | tail  or so
>
> root at 1[hda1]# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
>       missing codepage or other error
>       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>       dmesg | tail  or so
>
> root at 1[hda1]# dmesg |tail
> [17179619.724000] Adding 1646620k swap on /dev/hda5.  Priority:1
> extents:1 across:1646620k
> [17179621.012000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
> [17179621.012000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
> [17179621.248000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
> [17179621.300000] pcc_acpi: loading...
> [17179621.416000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM0] (36 C)
> [17179635.144000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
> [17179639.016000] powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs
> [17196389.468000] EXT3-fs: hda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported
> optional features (240).
> [17196610.992000] EXT3-fs: hda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported
> optional features (240).
> root at 1[hda1]#
>
> Hmm. I am suspecting a crash. I s there antway to retreive the data
> w/o spending any money?
>

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Stephen