Originally Posted by
caljohnsmith
Also, I would recommend doing a quick check of your HDD's partition table to make sure that's not an issue:
Code:
sudo apt-get install testdisk
sudo testdisk
After starting testdisk with the above command, choose "no log", select HDD and "proceed", "Intel", "Analyze", and see what it shows for your HDD and what errors it might give. Please post the output of that screen.
Doesn't look like there are any errors to me . . . partition table is as I expected.
Code:
Disk /dev/sda - 320 GB / 298 GiB - CHS 38913 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 P HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 13730 254 63 220588452 [DSK1_VOL1]
2 * Linux 13731 0 1 20669 254 63 111475035 [ubuntu]
3 E extended 26795 0 1 38912 254 63 194675670
4 P Linux 20670 0 1 26794 254 63 98398125 [gentoo]
5 L Linux 28444 1 1 38912 254 63 168184422 [/home]
X extended 26795 0 2 27187 254 63 6313544
6 L Linux Swap 26795 2 1 27187 254 63 6313419
X extended 27188 0 1 28443 254 63 20177640
7 L Linux 27188 1 1 28443 254 63 20177577 [/tmp]
*=Primary bootable P=Primary L=Logical E=Extended D=Deleted
How old is your HDD? I'm wondering if it is starting to flake out. Do you have a Diagnostics CD that came with your HDD? It would be good to check it I think. If you don't have a HDD diagnostics CD, you can download and use the
Ultimate Boot CD instead, because it has a whole bunch of programs for checking HDD integrity
I'm not sure how old the HDD is. I don't have the diagnostic CD that came with the hard drive, but I do have SystemRescueCD which comes with MHDD on it. I'll give that a whirl and see what it pops up next.
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