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Q: What the hell is a bad super block?
A: The first block of a partition is the "super block". this contains information about what kind of filesystem it is amongst other things. Without this a filesystem is pretty useless. Never fear, there are backup superblocks. Talk to an advanced user about repairing your (very) broken filesystem.
+And if your NTFS partition was this badly corrupted, you would likely see a windows "stop screen" on boot which is even less informative.
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Q: How do I back-up my files?
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Reformulation: I can't get things working, where do I go for help?
A: Hey, thats why we have the LUG right? Try reading around the wiki, we may have already answered your question somewhere here. Try emailing the wlug mailing list (wlug@list.waikato.ac.nz) asking for help, or try asking us on [IRC] irc://irc.undernet.org/%23wlug
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+Most of the options are the same (IP address, DNS, gateway, and so on.) and in very similar places, particularly with Ubuntu, so often times the best option is to just not tell them you use Linux. Or if you dual-boot, copy the working settings from Windows to the corresponding places in Linux.
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