<div dir="ltr">HI all, Yesterday, after transferring a lot of linux ISOs from my NTFS partitions to my home partition on ext3 file system (both types of FSs on same harddisk) and restarting my Ubuntu 8.04.1 system, I received an error saying that I have to run "fsck" manually in the maintenance mode as my root partition encountered some problems in the automatic (routine) file system check. I ran it and answered yes (the default option) to all questions. After the check, I logged into the system and was shocked to see that the ISOs I just transferred were not there in the home directory. There were some other problems such as all my bookmarks (in Places) were gone and I also received an error saying that TomBoy couldn't load. I searched around and finally found some files starting with "#" in the lost+found folder of /home. I found out about their sizes and was relieved to see that some of them were around 700 MB in size (which means my lost ISOs). But there were only 3 files with this big size and I had more ISOs than 3. Apart from ISOs I have lost many of my configuration file which are present in home folder (most importantly those of vmware, so that I am unable to use it.) I want to know how can I recover my files from lost+found and also those that are not present in that directory but lost. Please help. I am a newbie in linux and have never encountered data loss problems in linux (I thought they were windows things). -- Kartik <a href="http://www.techglider.com/blog" target="_blank">http://www.techglider.com/blog</a> (The TechGlider Blog) <a href="http://forums.techglider.com/" target="_blank">http://forums.techglider.com</a> (The TechGlider Forums) </div>