Consider a practical scenario and where you encounter the below error message when you boot your system:

BAD SUPERBLOCK AT BLOCK 16: NUMBER OF DIRECTORIES OUT OF RANGE

After the above error message appears and the hard drive data becomes inaccessible. In addition and you encounter the same error message even when the FSCK command attempts to check and repair the file systems at the boot time.

Cause:

The root cause for the occurrence of the above error message is the corruption in superblock.

Resolution:

To troubleshoot and resolve the above error message and access the hard drive data and you will need to take below actions:

Firstly and you need to run the FSCK command manually and try to boot the system.

If the problem persists and then you will need to use alternate superblock.

However, if both the above actions fail to resolve your issue and the data still remains inaccessible and then you will need to reinstall Sun Solaris operating system. A clean reinstall of Sun Solaris will erase all the formally saved data from the hard drive partition or volume. To recover the data after formatting the hard drive and you will need to use powerful Sun Solaris Data Recovery Software to recover the Lost data. Such Sun Solaris Intel Recovery tools employ high end scanning methods to recover your Lost files and folders. With highly interactive user interface and advanced features and these tools are easy to understand without any prior technical understanding. These recovery tools provide complete recovery of the Lost data after FSCK command is unable to repair the system data structures.

Stellar Phoenix (Solaris - Intel) software is a feature rich Sun Solaris Intel Data Recovery tool that recovers data from Solaris operating system ON Intel platform. This read only recovery tool supports UFS file systems. It gets installed ON Windows (XP, 2003 and 2000, NT, ME and 98 and 95) and the affected UNIX hard drive should be connected as slave.