Journaled File System Recovery HELP???

[NetAdmin2004]

I need some help with trying to recover data off of a Hard Drive that has a JFS Partition on it. It came out of a Maxtor MaxAttach 3000 unit that uses FreeBSD and JFS for the data storage area.

I have tried the drive in a Linux box after installing the JFS package from SoureForge, but keep getting "Invalid Superblock" erros and cannot mount it.... I can't figure out what I am supposed to do from here??? Of course the data is crucial, as it always is....

Any suggestions, help, anything is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

 

[pythonmaster]

There really isn't any decent off-the-shelf software recovery tools for these file-systems that'd I've found. You're probably going to be stuck going after a in-lab solution would be my guess.

There's always a chance you're getting the invalid superblock because the drive has some underlying electrical or mechanical issue (like a bad headstack).

If the data is super-critical it's probably best not to mess with it too much as any physical problem may be worsening. This is especially true if you hear new noises (I.E. Clicking or Grinding) coming from the drive.

 

[Mindox]

Invalid Superblock" errors - your HDD media is damaged by bad blocks. We can help to recover your data from JFS Partition if You wish.

http://www.lostdatarescue.com/

 

[andyj1234]

i would recomend contacting xlilo data recovery at

http://www.xlilo.co.uk

they have 24 hour support and well priced all around the world. i use there services monthly.
i moved to xlilo as they are fast, honest and reliable.

i just had a look and they support the freebsd operating system

hope this helps.

 

[andyj1234]

xlilo supports the following
UFS1 & UFS2 (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD file systems) partitions

i have never herd of jfs partitions

 

[NetAdmin2004]

I am not sure if you have heard of the MaxAttach 3000 (NAS Server) but it runs on FreeBSD and the main file storage area is JFS (Journaled File System) creatd by IBM. So anyway, I have tried to mount the partition I need and keep getting "bad superblock" and cannot seem to find a way to get it to mount in a rebuilt FreeBSD system.