missing super block

i have been trying to access my usb hard drive (formatted in xfs to connect
to a nas drive).the nas wont pick it up any more so i have tried ufs explorer
and it says there is a missing or damaged superblock ,does this mean that the
data is no good now and the drive needs to be re-formatted
thanks for any help
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martyb

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:42:01 -0700, marty wrote:

> i have been trying to access my usb hard drive (formatted in xfs to connect
> to a nas drive).the nas wont pick it up any more so i have tried ufs explorer
> and it says there is a missing or damaged superblock ,does this mean that the
> data is no good now and the drive needs to be re-formatted
> thanks for any help

Not sure. If it happened to me, I would Google for "recover data from XFS
drive" or similar.

Sorry I can't be more specific. This is my day for answering questions from
a position of ignorance...

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Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom

"marty" <> wrote in message
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>i have been trying to access my usb hard drive (formatted in xfs to connect
> to a nas drive).the nas wont pick it up any more so i have tried ufs
> explorer
> and it says there is a missing or damaged superblock ,does this mean that
> the
> data is no good now and the drive needs to be re-formatted
> thanks for any help
> --
> martyb

Well if you are referring to the XFS files system format developed by SGI
and then ported to some Linux distributions you may well indeed have
problems reading it as XFS is not a natively supported file system under
Windows Vista.
So unless you happen to have a file system driver for XFS on Windows Vista
and I am not aware of there being one, you will not be able to read the
drive when locally attached to your Windows Vista PC.
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Mike Brannigan