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    How to recover Linux after a power surge puts it in emergency mode

    I bit the bullet and chose to format and was told I could not. Here's what I was told: WINDOWS CANNOT FORMAT F CHECK TO SEE THAT THE DISK AND DRIVE ARE CONNECTED PROPERLY, MAKE SURE THE DISK IS NOT READ-ONLY THEN TRY AGAIN. FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEARCH HELP FOR READ-ONLY FILES AND HOW TO...
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    How to recover Linux after a power surge puts it in emergency mode

    I removed the thumb drive and then reinserted it. I was told that I needed to format the drive before I could use it. However, if I choose to format it I could lose everything on the disk. Wow, sounds scary!!
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    How to recover Linux after a power surge puts it in emergency mode

    I feel I need to fully disclose that I am truly a novice when it comes to computing. I can use the software system for business and individual purposes but when it comes to coding or fixings errors I'm at a loss. With respect to my Linux software, it is on a separate usb drive. It was...
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    How to recover Linux after a power surge puts it in emergency mode

    Hi Wizard, I've gone attempted to go through the information Hi Chris or Brian, In an attempt to recover the damaged file system, I entered "fsck" . The response was fsck from util-linux 2.30.2 Okay, what does this mean??? I have Linux on a thumb drive my computer yet I cannot access it...
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    How to recover Linux after a power surge puts it in emergency mode

    Hi Wizard, Sorry it has been a while but I've been coping with the death of my father in upstate New York. Our IT guy placed all the Linux software in the E drive on our computer. I can boot into Windows, but not into Linux (which I had been previously set up to so). When I open the E drive...
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    How to recover Linux after a power surge puts it in emergency mode

    Thanks, Chris. I'm in the Eastern Time zone. Thanks for your help!
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    How to recover Linux after a power surge puts it in emergency mode

    Hello Chris, This is Liz and I'm communicating with you by cell phone. The following are the errors I received: 8.842578) ACPI Error: Result stack is empty! State=8888888Beba 1f 458 (281883 13/dsustate-65) 8.842574) ACPI Error: AE_AML_NO_RETURN_VALUE, Missing or null operand (2818...
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    How to recover Linux after a power surge puts it in emergency mode

    I have an Acer computer that came with Microsoft 10 but I installed Linux Red Hat as my operating system which I used exclusively. I suffered a power surge and now when I try to boot the operating system, I receive several error messages and am left in emergency mode. How can I get out of...
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