hmmmmm.... I can&#39;t cut a break I tell ya! I started system rescue cd  and see an option to &#39;Boot an exhisting Linux OS installed on the disk.&#39; I select it and it says, &#39;Attempting to mount &lt;partition&gt;&#39; (6 differant partitions) and then &#39;!!!Cannot find a valid root filesystem....&#39;<br>
<br>I&#39;m running your dd command right now and it has been running like 2 minutes.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com">bmike1@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yep.... I think I had a hard disk failure. I restarted my computer and was presented with:<br><br>     error: unknown filesystem.<br>
     grub rescue&gt;<br><br>I then typed &#39;ls&#39; and the response was<br><br>     (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos3) (hd0,msdos1) (fd0)<br>
<br>which is two partitions, the swap drive, and the floppy disk<br>how do I verify my suspicion of drive failure?<br>funny how all this happened just as I was attempting to back it up.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>:-)~MIKE~(-:<br>

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