Mandrake 9.1, she has died

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On boot the message:

The spuerblock could not be found or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it contains an ext2 filesystem, then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

The device is hdd1, a 10Gb Quantum Fireball.

This is the 2nd mandrake install to do this on this disk in a month. And i just had it running so sweet.
Is it possible to recover the error?
I tried "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdd1" but no luck, i really would like to preserve my setup.

I have spare space on my 80 Western digital drive, i have used partition magic7 to shrink the NTFS partition on there 15Gb, and want to use ghost to copy the 10Gb drives partitions over. But I don't know how to get the shifted (to hda2?) parttitions running, or even if i can repair the current problem to make it worthwhile shifting.

Please help the newb  :confused:

[psyjax]

sounds like there is indeed a problem with the harddrive... unless...

Is Mandrake first on the drive?

Windows NT/XP/2000 likes to be first as I  understand it. Also, the NT's have a nasty habit of overwriting MBR's on updates, but I doubt that's the issue. It really sounds like you have a bad sector or something on the drive.

[JH]

quote:
On boot the message:

I tried "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdd1" but no luck, i really would like to preserve my setup.
[/QB]

Well, there might be some possible problems. The most common is that people trying to mount and check the wrong partition as the root one. Make sure.

If that doesn't help, try to boot from a floppy and try e2fsck -cpv /dev/hdd1.

[Pantso]

Needless to say that this is the first time I see such a message, which leads me to think that it's most propably due to harddrive failure. I'm not very sure though. Perhaps, someone else can help more.