Hi folks, I am having a problem - I have tried to detail the problem I have at the time of booting the machine. Please give me advice as to what is heppening - even if any one of you have come across this before and also suggest me a way to work it out. Here is the problem at the time of the boot: hdc: read-intr:status=0x59 {drive ready seek complete datarequired error} hdc: read-intr: error = 0x40 {uncorrectableerror}, LBAsect=49235, sector = 49172 end-required: i/o error, dec 16:01, sector 49172 ext2_fs error (device 16:01): ext2_read_inode:unable to read inode lock - inode=6149, block=24586 Please let me know how to recover from this "gard disk crash" - if that is what it is. I do have some important data on it. Thanks for all your help, Satya -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.