Unable to mount hard disk

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Published on 2012-10-28T03:54:11Z Indexed on 2012/10/28 5:24 UTC
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I am unable to mount hard disk and got this message:

Unable to mount 158 GB Filesystem
Error mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

From the terminal, I tried syslog - try:

No command 'syslog' found, did you mean:
Command 'dsyslog' from package 'dsyslog' (universe)
Command 'syslogd' from package 'sysklogd' (universe)
Command 'syslogd' from package 'inetutils-syslogd' (universe)
Command 'syslogd' from package 'busybox-syslogd' (universe)
syslog: command not found

Also tried dmesg | tail:

[ 971.390588] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 12 62 30 80 00 00 40 00
[ 971.390600] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 308424832
[ 971.390605] Read-error on swap-device (8:0:308424840)
[ 971.390608] Read-error on swap-device (8:0:308424848)
[ 971.390617] Read-error on swap-device (8:0:308424856)
[ 971.390620] Read-error on swap-device (8:0:308424864)
[ 971.390623] Read-error on swap-device (8:0:308424872)
[ 971.390626] Read-error on swap-device (8:0:308424880)
[ 971.390629] Read-error on swap-device (8:0:308424888)
[ 971.390632] Read-error on swap-device (8:0:308424896)

It was fine before I tried to re-install 12.04 from the live CD (which failed due to the disk problem).

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