I posted about this previously, my ext2 partition got pooched because of my stupidness. I let my wintel partition grow too much and that dammaged my Linux partition, Lenz whas right about that and I got my solution on the following link http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/rb_fsckerror.html Since many of us dual boot, if you use 1 hdd for two OS's make sure you keep this url saved, it could be usefull when this happens to you. Clinton