[SWLUG] Help! system won't boot!!

[Dafydd Walters]

neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk wrote:
> Any ideas anyone if can fix it temporarily and just 
> copy everything over.

SpinRite (http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm) is supposed to be quite good
at getting hard drives working again in situations like this.

It's supposed to work with lots of different filesystems and operating
systems (including Linux, of course).