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- Mar 12, 2007
I am fixing my fathers computer. I was getting sick of dealing with Windows and the crapware my step sister was getting on it so I installed Kubuntu 7.04 on it, a week later I get a call saying the computer is not booting. When I turn it on it just hangs at loading Grub. I also remember when installing Kubuntu the installer hung while formating the drive the first time but completed fine after the second time.
This is feeling like a failing hard drive to me. I booted the computer from the Kubuntu Live cd and ran
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
(Warning to those that don't know, this wipes out everything on the drive)
to write all zeros to the disk and basically check for bad sectors. It stopped at 6.4MB's with an input/output error. To me this confirms my initial thoughts, but I'm going to put the drive in my computer and enable SMART and try dd again and what ever else I can think of.
Does anyone have any other Linux based methods of checking for hard drive failure?
This is feeling like a failing hard drive to me. I booted the computer from the Kubuntu Live cd and ran
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
(Warning to those that don't know, this wipes out everything on the drive)
to write all zeros to the disk and basically check for bad sectors. It stopped at 6.4MB's with an input/output error. To me this confirms my initial thoughts, but I'm going to put the drive in my computer and enable SMART and try dd again and what ever else I can think of.
Does anyone have any other Linux based methods of checking for hard drive failure?