I tried this on the x86_64 list, but no one was able to help me and I'm not having any luck with google - I suspect it's a terminology problem. I had a bad hard drive crash last weekend. KDE froze to the point that I needed to do a hard reboot (the problem turned out to be a memory stick that was loose). Tried to repair it using a SuSE boot disk and the repair option under install. This made things worse. 2 partitions - /dev/hda1 is a linux swap and /dev/hda2 is a bootable reiserfs (kicking myself now that I didn't make home a separate partition). My current state is that if I try to boot that drive, I get a Grub error 16. I can't get into Grub to edit the boot setup SuSE recognizes the partitions but fails when I try mounting the partition on another drive, repair using the tools under installation or update. I've used a rescue cd to check the disk with fdisk and gnu-parted - they agree on the partitions but gnu-parted is reporting that I have 2 TB of space used on a 163GB partition. I have no clue what to do next. Should I try resizing the partition and hope it "deletes" the extra used space or is there some other way to force a recheck or reindex of the partition. System Details: X86_64 on a MSI K8T Neo FIS2R motherboard. 1024kb ram now properly installed and being recognized. The drive in question is made by Hitachi but I don't have the details handy. However, I don't think any of this should matter since the problem doesn't seem to be hardware related. Thanks Hilary -- Hilary L. Hertzoff Young Adult Librarian Mamaroneck Public Library hhertzof@gmail.com