maver1ck4000
May 1st, 2009, 03:56 PM
First of all, I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04, however my laptop was beginning to slow down before this. Once I upgraded I was able to reboot once, after my second reboot, Grub appeared and then went to a blank screen. I decided to boot with out the splash screen but then I just saw a blinking curser. Booting in to recovery mode did actually get a little further but then I started seeing hard disk errors. I was able to take out my drive and put it in my desktop which is also running 9.04, it was unable to mount the drive. After a quick fsck I was able to mount the drive and recover my files, so I thought it might be something with the upgrade process that broke my partitions some how. I reinstalled a fresh copy of 9.04 on the same drive and everything was fine until the next morning when I all of a sudden some of my icon's were showing up as Xs and not much would run. Once again I decided to reboot and this time on shut down I got another drive error where it stopped and wouldn't shut down.
My main question is, what is going on here, and is there a program under linux that will do an in depth disk check to check for errors? I'm guessing there are some bad blocks or something, and my solution long term is to just get a new drive. But with out having to reboot my desktop, or boot from a CD is there any way to check the drive for these errors. My drive could have been going bad before the upgrade, but everything seemed ok, so has anyone else seen similar problems like this? It seems kind of strange that this would happen in conjunction with an upgrade. The physical drive seems to be in good condition, no strange noises and really my laptop hasn't moved for a couple months because it just sits on my desk, so it hasnt been moved or dropped or anything like that.
I was able to format the drive and it mounted again on my desktop with out any issues, but it would be nice to have some kind of program to check it, when I run fsck it just completes instantly with out any errors.
Thanks,
Mav
My main question is, what is going on here, and is there a program under linux that will do an in depth disk check to check for errors? I'm guessing there are some bad blocks or something, and my solution long term is to just get a new drive. But with out having to reboot my desktop, or boot from a CD is there any way to check the drive for these errors. My drive could have been going bad before the upgrade, but everything seemed ok, so has anyone else seen similar problems like this? It seems kind of strange that this would happen in conjunction with an upgrade. The physical drive seems to be in good condition, no strange noises and really my laptop hasn't moved for a couple months because it just sits on my desk, so it hasnt been moved or dropped or anything like that.
I was able to format the drive and it mounted again on my desktop with out any issues, but it would be nice to have some kind of program to check it, when I run fsck it just completes instantly with out any errors.
Thanks,
Mav