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by brianaaa12

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Greetings,
Here's my situation. I have a Linux system with single hard drive. The root partition, an ext3 partition and a swap partition. A few days ago I heard the drive start the signature "clicking" sound indicating imminant failure. I did a ghost to a newer, larger hard drive. The ghost finished.

Upon rebooting to the new drive, I can't mound my ext3 partition. I get the error "No journal on filesystem". I tried running fsck but I get a long list of inode of errors having to hit "Y" for each one. Like "Root inode is not a directory", and "deleted inode has zero dtime".

Is there any chance of salvaging this partition? How? If I try to set the switch to auto-fix, it reports it can't and I should try running it manually.

Help!

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by rindi1

If the old drive is still running, first download the Linux-on-CD Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.com) There are plenty of tools on this CD and it runs on most systems from CD. then use partimage to make an image file of your old disk to an empty, formated partition on your new disk. Once you have made image files of all partitions of your old disk you can remove that disk and setup your new disk as the main drive then restore those image files to empty space on your new drive. The new partitions should have about the same size as the original ones. You can change the size later with with qparted or another partitioning program.

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