With but one partition left to convert from NTFS to ext3, this
one had to be the difficult one. It's my old C: partition from which I used to boot Windows. Three times now, with cp and tar, it has hung somewhere in the Documents and Settings directory and nothing brings it back.
Use "rsync -av /path/to/src /path/to/dest", that will allow you to 1) restart it and 2) --exclude stuff that causes you trouble.
/Peter