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gary wrote:

> it does say something about the root password and 
> a disk error (fail)

If it asks for the root password that's a good sign - it means the hard 
drive isn't completely dead. With a bit of luck, following Zebee's 
instructions and running fsck will fix it.

How did it get like that in the first place though? What happened 
immediately before you had that problem? Back in the bad old days i used 
to see that sort of thing a fair bit if the computer was powered off 
while it was running, rather than being shut down properly - but, thanks 
to the ext3 file system, i haven't seen it for years. Ext3 seems to 
manage to fix that stuff on its own (touch wood!).

> so should i hit delete to get the bios thing up and 
> go from there or should i try to save my stuff onto a cd  while using 
> the live cd then re install Ubuntu?

Definitely use the live CD to save your files if you can. If you can do 
that, then the hard drive is probably fixable, so fsck should sort out 
the problem, with a bit of luck.

> If so how would i get my email addresses etc from evolution mail?

Evolution keeps its mail folders and configuration files in a directory 
called .evolution in your home directory. Note the dot at the beginning 
of the file name - it's important. The dot also means that file probably 
won't show up in the file browser window (i.e., when you open your home 
directory). But there should be an option to "Show hidden files" in the 
"View" menu at the top of the file browser window. That will show you a 
whole load of files and directories with names starting with a dot.

Copy .evolution onto a CD or whatever. An external hard drive is a good 
idea for this, although they're normally formatted for windows and 
you'll have trouble with some of the file names in the .evolution 
directory. You may have trouble with that with a CD too. Give it a try 
and, if there's any error messages, post them here. I could tell you how 
to avoid them, but you may not need to - and if you don't need to, you 
don't want to know that at this stage!

Even better than just copying .evolution, copy everything in your home 
directory.



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