Thanks for those who responded.
The fix was a bit of patience and Reading TFM
e2fsck -b 16385 -c /dev/hdd1
The -c did a bad block check, in frustration I left the system
overnight as it appeared just to hang... no disk activity for about 10
minutes.
This morning it had finished (well dropped back to shell anyway), and
now the fs is mountable.
All fsck'ing now works ok with no block being reported as bad
(probably -c may have repaired them)
I was able to get the critical configuration files off the disk. The
physical disk is now destined for the scrap heap as I ain't going to
chance it in a live enviroment.
Regards
SK
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