Am i really toasted?

[ububaba]

Have several SATA HDs. After having tackled the ICEauthority problem,
on one of them, I noticed that sound was completely gone. No streams
were present. Nvidia driver was OK, when I expanded different mixers that
I had loaded, they showed only a blank page, had neither any figures
nor text on it.

After a restart I was pushed to the shell where I was prompted to login,
which was an impossibility as the screen was flickering madly. Hence other
harddisks could not be accessed.

If I make the healthy HD as the sda1, I do get to see the login icon but it
stops at that, no possibility to actually login. And then after a few minutes
the screen turns blank black.

Has anyone been through this? There is so much on the HD that I would
not like to lose.

Am I really toasted? Naturally, I can furnish more details.

[K.J.]

I'm not exactly sure what your problem might be. You can try logging in as single user and reconfiguring your X. You probably haven't lost any data. I would boot in with a live cd and copy data to an external drive.

[HeadHunter00]

Ooh, you're toast.

[ububaba]

I'm not exactly sure what your problem might be. You can try logging in as single user and reconfiguring your X. You probably haven't lost any data. I would boot in with a live cd and copy data to an external drive.

1 If the problematic disk is sda then it keeps on flickering no further
action is possible.

2 If the good one is made sda then the login screen is incomplete and
after a little wait it becomes totally black.

I hope it is clearer now. I will try out with live CD.

Thanks

[ububaba]

Ooh, you're toast.

Thanks for making me realise!

[ububaba]

I had to autoclean and corect ext3 and ext4 in /etc/fstab
that fixed everything. Thanks anyway.