No longer booting: BIOSDISK READ ERROR
I have something that seems like hard drive problems but I want to confirm it before I purchase and replace. I’m fairly new to Ubuntu and just loaded 9.10 to my Acer Aspire One (AOA110)
It worked for about a month and then started to not boot. I ran from live USB and ran fsck a couple times and got different results but fixed. It booted a few more times and then started with the grub:
BIOSDISK READ ERROR.
I’ve tried three different things (below) from live USB but no change. I am able to mount the drive in live mode and browse all files (all from what I can tell)
Any suggestions?
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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -pcfc /dev/sda1
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
badblocks: Input/output error during test data write, block 230848
/dev/sda1: Updating bad block inode.
Error reading block 491 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while getting next inode from scan.
/dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
(i.e., without -a or -p options)
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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -f -y /dev/sda1
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16
e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/sda1: 170468/468640 files (0.2% non-contiguous), 967009/1871564 blocks
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
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TestDisk did not find anything wrong either.
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