Doesn't sound like a corrupted partition scheme, it sounds like a
corrupted file system.  Repartitioning shouldn't be required, but you
may need to reformat.  :-(
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Datawolf

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ryan.denke@home.com wrote:
> 
> Can anyone help me? I have two hard drives, hda and hdc. I screwed
> with hdc and messed it up. The data seems to still be available,
> but when I boot up I am told I have a "Bad magic number in super-block
> while trying to open /dev/hdc." It suggests I run e2fsck with
> an alternate superblock, such as "e2fsck -b 8193 <device>." The
> partition type is definitely ext2.
> 
> Can I fix this without re-partitioning? If so, how?
> I don't know how to try alternate superblocks - perhaps that's
> all I need to do.
> 
> Any help is appreciated!
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