My 4 year old just tripped over my laptop's power cord and it smashed into the hardwood floor. :( The hard drive appears to have been somewhat damaged, but still kinda sorta works. But it no longer boots to Fedora 11 successfully... it gets a kernel panic, presumably due to a corrupt or missing file. I have a Fedora 11 live USB. Any chance I can use that to recover the earlier Fedora installation without a re-install? If I do have to do a re-install, I'd like to preserve whatever might be salvagable from my existing f11 partition, which is an LVM partition that is only about half full. Can I use gparted to shrink that partition and create a new partition for a new installation? I'm not too familiar with LVM and would prefer to use an old-school partition for any new installation. On a different topic, if this doesn't work out for me... any recommendations on a good bang/buck laptop for <$450 without a Windows tax that works well with f11? Thanks... Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines