input output error

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:57:55PM -0400, hui xu wrote:
> Could anybody tell me how to recover the data from my
> harddisk? My problem is:
> 
> I have stored all my photoes and software in an
> harddisk connected by USB to my linux box. I have not
> used it for half year. recently I try to mount ( mount
> -a /dev/sda /bigfoot) it to my linux box to get the
> data, I got the errors "/dev/sda: Input/output error 
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type"

What is the output of these:

fdisk -l /dev/sda
file -s /dev/sda /dev/sda1

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