corrupt superblock 4666

When booting the laptop with the drive in question, i get:

GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... ... some audible HD activity, over a minute long ... Error 25

Booting the laptop with floppy I get:

.... Mounting root filesystem kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. hda: readintr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } hda: readintr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=13810750, high=0, low=13810750, sector=557062 endrequest: I-O error, dev 03:06 (hda), sector 557062 EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)): ext3getinodeloc: unable to read inode block - inode=68 plus 1633, block=278531 pivotroot: pivotroot(-sysroot,-sysroot-initrd) failed: 5 umountinitrd-proc failed: 2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed Kernel panic: No init found. Try pbutting init= option to kernel.

----------------------- What gives me hope about being able to restore this drive is the fact that Windows ME sees the two vfat parbreastions and lets me use them fully - read-write, with no apparent errors (backed up several Gigabytes from those parbreastions yesterday)

(have not tried dd yet (setup currently unavailable, but decided to post the above meanwhile)

andrew