Disk Recovery suggestions welcomed...

[jbk]

Don Levey wrote:
> Last weekend, just before I left the continent on a trip, one of the
> partitions on my family server's hard drive seems to have crashed.  In
> particular, I had a separate partition for /home, and the system (after
> several power failures overnight) eventually refused to boot up with read
> errors on /home.
> 

There is a program that comes on a number of bootable rescue 
CD's called testdisk. You may even have it on your default 
distribution. This tool had helped me on a couple of disk 
crashes. I would recommend it if the other suggestions do 
not work. It is primarily a mbr restoration tool. The 
website for the tool has been helpful.

Jim Kelly-Rand