<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> I'll try fsdisk today. If it helps any, I popped in the old install CD and was able to mount /dev/sda4 durring the live session. It mounted and I was able to read files from the partitian. I also ran fsck from the cd (before I got your message), and it said /dev/sda4 was fine. Unfortunately, I don't think I have my notes from when i installed and partitianed this machine (the date on my install CD was April 2010). When nothing terrible happened durring the first 2 years, I lost track of the notes I took. >Uh-oh. Never mind "fsck" (yet). Your system can't even find "/dev/sda4" >(that is one of the "ERROR:" messages reported) to begin with. > >The possible causes for this condition are all bad (sorry). I realize this >is slow-going, but the next incremental step is to see what your partition >table looks like. At that command prompt, try whichever of these two commands >produces partition information as output: > > fdisk -l /dev/sda > /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda > >When you created your partitions (sda3 through sda6), did you write down the >partition information? If your partition table is messed up, it may be >very difficult to recover the table without that information. </div></body> </html>