Hello all. I'm using RedHat 7.2 now and haven't have any problems until today. I can still boot into the system at this time, but cannot load X at all. I'm getting the following error message when I try to run fsck. /contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks and sizes Error reading block 1277964 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in a short read) while doing inode scan. Ignore error<y>? No matter what I do (Y or N) the results are the same. The problem will not go away. Does anyone have any ideas as to a fix, or to what the problem is? When I do a fsck and it marks the fs as clean I reboot and login the system. But I still cannot load xwindows. below is some output from dmesg: hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=81423, sector=81360 hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=10223775, sector=10223712 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41 (hdb), sector 10223712 EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=636706, block=1277964 EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: IO failure EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,65)) in ext3_new_inode: IO failure hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=36264, sector=36200 hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=3421247, sector=3421184 hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=39183, sector=39120 hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=39183, sector=39120 hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=39280, sector=39216 TIA Louis