Hi newbies non-newbies (may your tribe increase)
Well, this is the second time (original install November 2001 - panic Jan
2001), So ... It may have been 'cos the 12yo exceeded his winME
partition size (around 10goig), or the (apparently) faulty power source ...
anyway, the hd was unable to
Sounds like you have disk problems again. Try booting from the install
CD, press F1 and type RESCUE.
It will allow you to mount your files systems under /mnt. First
question then is: can you mount them? If so, try fsck. That should at
least give you more data to come back to the list.
HTH
