[ale] Possibly bad hard drive

[dev null zero two]

get a new one and ddrescue the old one to it or forever hold your peace.


On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Jonathan Meek <jonathan.l.meek at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I believe my hard drive is about to give up the ghost hard. Saturday the
> system booted without issue then Monday, I booted the system and tried to
> start Firefox. The taskbar freaked out and I had to do a hard shutdown.
> After multiple restarts I was able to get the system back up but at all the
> restarts, I got a error message that stated that it couldn't find a
> particular directory and to press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart the system.
>
> Finally I got the system to give the prompt for entering in my harddrive
> password (I have an encrypted hard disk that I setup when I did a fresh
> install of lubuntu last time). It checked for errors and found some, it
> tried to repair them and hung at mounting /tmp.
>
> I restarted the system and this time it rebooted without issue I got all
> the way to the home screen and logged in. Launched Firefox without issue
> and goofed around for a few minutes while I let my backup system backup for
> the final time (in fear of never getting it back).
>
> Shutdown the system and restarted it with a Ubuntu 12.04 live CD in order
> to do check the hard drive. Went into Disk Utility and the system
> recognized I had a hard drive but when I tried any of the benchmarks it
> balked at me saying it couldn't read as well as the SMART Status said "not
> applicable". This might be from the encryption but I don't know.
>
> Exited out of the live CD, boot the system again, and it booted without
> incident. Tried to do software update, it griped at me saying that there
> was not enough room in /boot to do an update and to use sudo apt-get clean.
> Run sudo apt-get clean and tried the update again. Same error message.
> Repeated this step 5 times before giving up.
>
> I am not sure what to do at this stage with it because I can't seem to
> wipe the drive probably due to the encryption because I tried to install
> Ubuntu 12.04 since I had a backup of all my data.
>
> All that backstory was to ask this one question: Is there anything else I
> can do to give some level of assurance the actual status of the hard drive?
> I think it is busted but I am not sure.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jonathan
>
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