Hi!
I am having a few problems with my hard drive. I thought my 120G Hitachi Desk Star may have been faulty and I ran the command $fsck -cvn to check. I thought the "c" meant show progress, the "v" verbose and the "n" make no changes but I may have been wrong. Anyway fsck reported a few errors and then halted, and then system then froze. When I restarted I could not boot into my FC3 partition or my windows partition. Grub reports an error with /mnt/hda2 (my FC3 partition).
I have the ultimate boot disk and I have tested this disk a number of times (including a complete zeroing) and it always comes up clean. Likewise memtest is fine. Can anyone help me please? Even just some pointers on restoring the MBR so at least I can boot into my windows partition would be nice. Thanks in advance.

first reinstal the gurb read this link .

you should have used -C (capital C, not small c ) to show progress..............the man page says........

Hey thanks for your quick replies.

freakyg: I booted into the Fedora rescue mode and it said it was unable to mount /mnt/hda2 because of a bad superblock IIRC. I tried opening it in Knoppix and got the same result. So my question is should using -c instead of -C have completely hosed the partition as it seems to have? Is it likely that this is a bad drive? I've tested it a few times and it's always come back fine. Know any good testing tools?

shams: thanks for the link, the info was quite useful. Unfortunately for my situation the partition seems too corrupt to bother restoring grub, so I just used the windows recovery tools fixboot and fixmbr, so at least I have a working bootable OS. Just not linux

pc check works great for testing your hdd among other hardware.
just make sure you unselect the write tests! hehe