<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Yorvyk <<a href="mailto:yorvik.ubunto@googlemail.com" target="_blank">yorvik.ubunto@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> The general consensus for this problem seems to be to run TestDisk. <a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk" target="_blank">http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk</a> <a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download" target="_blank">http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download</a> </blockquote><div> Thanks for that, looks like nice piece of software indeed. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote> Removing the quiet and splash options from grub will show some of the test but it flies past at great speed. Have a look at /var/log dmesg to see what is happening during boot. </blockquote></div> Will do that. I also intend to get new drive in the coming months, an SSD one to put the system partitions on it. I shall see if my FAT32 errors survive this disk change, or if it fixes them at last... Regards, -- Vince