text: how do i skip hard drive disk check during start up (in linux, suse in particular)? one of my hd failed, but there is data i'd like to recover.  i know the hd has no data integrity (because multiple failed sectors.)  but suse does not know that, it would spend days trying to check for disk integrity.  all i need is to get pass the start up and try to get as much data off the defective disk as possible and trash it.    can anyone help me figure out how i can skip the start up disk check? change its' entry in /etc/fstab to read something like:  /dev/hdc /mnt/dead_drive reiserfs ro,noauto 0 0  the noauto and the 0 0 are the important parts. noauto tells it not to automatically mount at boot time which would trigger a fs scan.  the 0 0 tell it not to dump core and not to scan fs at mount.  i couldn't be sure which device you hooked it up as so change that line to suite your needs.  to get at it after booting you must type in a command as root like this:  mount /mnt/dead_drive