On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:39:52AM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: ... | What should I do in this situation? I'm more concerned with not losing data on | the disk than resucing my debian install, although doing both would be | preferable.
Do you have another machine that is hardware-compatible? (like, has an IDE bus) You could put the disk in the other machine and use it to backup and check it. HTH, -D