Hosed FS

[Micah K Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

Aaargh.  Anyone seen this before?  First, after I logged in and tried to
run Netscape, the complete system slowed to a crawl, with timeout
errors.  I hit reset.  BIOS didn't recognize *either* HD.  Turned power
off, on, and everything started up fine.  While it was fscking, I
plugged in a microphone (not terribly smart maybe) and the whole system
died.  Power supply went silent, everything shut off, and I couldn't
turn it back on!  After banging around on it, it comes back on, but the
partition with my home directory appears to be hosed!

$ mount /dev/hdb8 /home
 -- normal mount error msg --

$ e2fsck -p /dev/hdb8
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
while trying to open /dev/hdb8.
Could this be a zero length partition?

Any ideas???
thanks...