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Hi I used Simply Mepis live cd. Ran fsck & after answering Yes to a lot of questions I was able access the drive. It had create a lost & found dir & within which I was able to locate my home drive. Still have to rebuild but at least I have my data. Thank you to everyone for their help Steve On 8/1/05, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steve Ellis wrote: > > > > Is there some kind of disk check I can run within these CD's that will > > check/repair the volume. > > fsck is the family of tools for disk repair. > > However if GRUB says the partition format is not recognised, it may well > be broken beyond repair. > > You should be working through the comments John made still I think. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFC7cX6GFXfHI9FVgYRAqhDAJ9eQfjjy+e0i3iuUy58YxKBBXh4XACgu1k7 > wS38SbmZSZYRvtZmygqjEfQ= > =GGY+ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the > message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html