Sergey, You told us you have two months of work on a report that is at risk on that failed system. That is significant and I would hate to see it lost. I guess you probably couldn't concentrate at 3:30 AM so you had to turn in. Maybe your head is in better condition now. As I've said before -- I don't have SuSE and my thinking is based on 'other' -ix and -ux so you must try to correlate my thoughts with the reality of your SuSE installation. Please attend to this suggestion if you can: Tell us about your disk! What is the size of it? What did you use to create the partitions? What are the partitions, name, size, file system, what was on them before the crash. Which WINDOWS OS, or other OS, are you using and which files system for WINDOWS? NTFS or FAT32? Why can't you fix your GRUB? Can you show us the configuration of GRUB. If you continue copying and playing with 'install' without understanding what you are doing you can kiss your research good-bye. Unfortunately, you may already have done that. Is/Was your research in a partition by itself? IMHO your best bet is to make room for an install, and do that without getting into the crashed file system. Depending upon your disk size, and with the proper tools, you may shrink the WINDOWS partition to make room or maybe you didn't declare your partitions to use all of the disk. I think you need about 5 GB for an install, and less for a minimum install. Without information about what you had before the crash, I am unable to see any alternatives. Lonn