You don't give much info.
Try fdisk -l to see if the OS can even see the drive.
If it shows up there, try fsck -y /dev/hda1
im tryingto access my harddrive via Knoppix that i just installed today. but when i go to get on the harddrive it says
Couldn't mount device '/dev/hda1' : Input/output error
Mount failed.
how the hell do i get access to my harddrive?
You don't give much info.
Try fdisk -l to see if the OS can even see the drive.
If it shows up there, try fsck -y /dev/hda1

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