rescuedisk (7.3)

my rescuedisk of 7.3 has an old tune2fs so I downloaded a more recent one hoping the option ^O will be supported, but the file is to big so when I gzip it I get: 2881+0 records in 2880+0 records uit so I did gzip -9 but then my system is stuck what I want to establish is going from et3 to ext2 so partition magic can look at my Hdisk. fdisk claims there is a partition I made with bad blocks or so I guess 'cause it hangs between 609 and 12xx anyone any input here? piet