Oh, and it looks like you have more than one hd on that or at least more than one partition. You could do a 'poor man's install' of Knoppix to another partition so as to free up the cdrom/dvdrom writer if only one on the machine. What it does is copy verbatim the cd and with the Knoppix cd in the cdrom, it loads only vmlinux...about 2 seconds worth then runs off the 'poor man's copied cdrom on the partition. http://www.knoppix.net should have a 'how to' on poorman's install. If not, email me, I know how to. --- Richard Whitney wrote: > Hello! > > I'd like to save what data I can from this drive. I > have tried to reinstall > like 5 distors and they all report unrecoverable > errors on hdf1 (/home). > It's always been separate from / (hda1). > Recovery experts! > If you need the exact error from, say, Fedora - I > can produce that. > > Thank you in advance! > > R. Whitney > Transcend Development > "Producing the next phase of your internet presence" > http://xend.net > Premium Quality Web Hosting > http://xendhosting.com > rw AT xend.net > Net Binder http://netbinder.net > 310-943-6498 > 602-288-5340 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > Cyclists should expect and demand safe accommodation on our public roads, just as does every other user. Nothing more is expected. Nothing less is acceptable! Long live Knoppix!! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss