i haven't done anything to fix it yet...i'm still looking for a tool to help me extract the data that's on that partition...i think what the partition is missing is a kde startup file, but i'm not 100% sure...also, when i received the first batch of errors, i fan fsck to answer your other question, what i originally did was format the partition that i thought was empty and not being used. <div>On 1/30/07, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. <<a href="mailto:lists@pavri.net">lists@pavri.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Lokeey wrote: > i was wondering if anyone knew of any good tools to recover data from a hard > drive? i accidentally erased what i thought was unused partition that i > think had the boot label now the main partition where all of my linux data > was on is not able to mount or do anything else for that matter. i just want > to be able to removed the data from the partition so that i can reinstall > kubuntu. > > any ideas? I'm coming into this thread a little late, but what have you done ? deleted the partition entry or formatted the partition ? anyway take a look here <a href="http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Partition-Rescue.html">http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Partition-Rescue.html </a> I remember I had some links somewhere but can't find them just now. I'll hunt for them and send them if I find any. hth, Sharukh -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. Armored knights rose their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. That's how we got the modern military salute. -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- "I am what I am because of who we all are"