A while back I got kicked out of graphical mode, I then ended up buying a new pc case, 3 fans, a 400W continous power supply and a new Hard Drive Seagate with S.M.A.R.T support. I reinstalled everything, but I kept my other hard-drive also, I have it so that the installation was installed on the new primary hard-drive, but my /home and /srv are mounted onto my old hard-drive, my thinking was that if something went wrong I could reinstall and remount without loss of data.... Both hd's are either ext2 or 3 (not reiserfs).... However, upon booting up I'm now being told: fsk failed. try #mount -n -o remount, rw / but when I try this doesn't work ? Problem seems to be on hda2, is this my old hard-drive.... and even if so why can't I login at least since the os is supposed to be on the primary hard-drive.... I just can't believe it anymore... Is there anything I can do to try and retrieve the files on /srv (this being the secondary drive) ???? G. -- devosc