[KLUG Members] won't boot, superblock error

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>On booting I get a "superblock could not be read or does not describe a
>correct ext2 filesystem . . ."
>It offers a command to fix things that is:
>e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
>which doesn't fix anything but returns the above message.

It  won't if it isn't an ext filesystem. :)

>To my knowledge I didn't reformat the drive (an old windows formatted

Have you tried specifying the filesystem type msdos when you mount it?

Any possibility you fiddled with the BIOS settings; LBA, etc...

>drive) to make an ext2 filesystem so I'm not sure it is an ext2
>formatted drive.  So what gives, dying/dead HD?

Quite possibly.

>Any ideas for rescuing it?