hmmmmm.... I can't cut a break I tell ya! I started system rescue cd  and
see an option to 'Boot an exhisting Linux OS installed on the disk.' I
select it and it says, 'Attempting to mount <partition>' (6 differant
partitions) and then '!!!Cannot find a valid root filesystem....'

I'm running your dd command right now and it has been running like 2
minutes.


On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep.... I think I had a hard disk failure. I restarted my computer and was
> presented with:
>
>      error: unknown filesystem.
>      grub rescue>
>
> I then typed 'ls' and the response was
>
>      (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos1) (fd0)
>
> which is two partitions, the swap drive, and the floppy disk
> how do I verify my suspicion of drive failure?
> funny how all this happened just as I was attempting to back it up.
>
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> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>



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