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Installed ubuntu 12.10 after Windows wouldn't start (failed to boot, press ctrl alt del to reRecovery). Install went fine but the computer frequently would freeze. Almost everything I did would raise errors in the tty1 thing. Also, every time I'd boot, the unity interface never loaded until I would do "unity --reset" in the tty1 cli.
Eventually it got so bad that i did the REISUB thing that I read about to force a reboot.
Ever since then, I'd get "hd0 out of disk" with the grub rescue prompt.
Googling help advice didn't lepead anywhere, unfortunately.
I ran ultimatebooter or whatever it's called. Running an hdd diagnostic for my sata drive, I get a lot of "drive not ready" responses as the hdd's sectores get checked,
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I tried installing windows 7 again, which was what I originally had. Unfortunately it wasn't possible because the "partition select" portion of the install process believed that the file system was not in ntfs format.
Googling this, I found that I could try to fix this via command prompt... but upon trying to reformat the drive in the windows command prompt, the computer would hang.
Eventually I decided to try and just do a fresh install of ubuntu... this time 13.10. I would frequently hang wt the ubuntu splash screen. So, after googling advice, i turn off the "nomodeset" feature and tell the bootable to just install the newer version.
Upon beginning the install process, I find in the tty1 interface this same loop (pictured above) causing the computer to hang. This same loop happened and caused the computer to hang for so long that I did the REISUB command, which was ironically what set me on this path to begin with.
So yeah, that's my story.
Is my hard drive ****ed?
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