THOMAS ADAM schrieb:

Right,

Lets take this from the top......

1. Since you say that you can do nothing about booting, writing, etc to your Linux partition, I am going to go through some stages.

I assume that you can access DOS, yes?? And that you have "pkunzip" for DOS (which is easily got).

I recommend using a program called "Tom's Root/Boot". This is a single Linux floppy disk that can be used to access your Linux partition in case of corruption.

You can download the DOS installation version, here:

http://www.tux.org/pub/distributions/tinylinux/tomsrtbt/toms rtbt-1.7.361.dos.zip

If you unzip it, and then install it onto a floppy, and then boot from the floppy into "Tom's Linux", you can then do the following:

1. Once booted, and into Linux (off the floppy), enter:

bash

2. Mount the drive (Linux partition):

mount -t ext2 /dev/hd?? /mnt -o rw (should make it rw)

2. Then see what state your files are in. From the mounted drive, you can run a diagnostic test, as root, thus:

fsck /

which should diagnose your problem. Any lost cluster will then appear in "/lost+found"

--Thomas Adam

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