ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) failed

[shubham.iitb]

Hi,

I recently had my laptop motherboard repaired. The OS was corrupted and I formatted it. Now, I was trying to install ubuntu 9.04, after a while it gives me the message 'ext3 file system creation in partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) failed' .

Moreover I'm not able to install Windows Xp too.

Is there some problem with the hardware or is it a Ubuntu or general settings problems. Anyways, I'm losing my head. Any help would be appreciated.

Shubham

[stlsaint]

its looking like a bad hdd. what type of hdd do you have? Seagate, Western Digital, etc etc?

[uramoose123]

i'm actually having the same problem as well -
i have a dell mini 9 - 16gb intel pata ssd

i'm trying to install the new ubuntu 9.10 and im getting the error message:

The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1 (0,0,0), partition #1 (sda) at /failed


i'm thinking for whatever reason my ssd just went bad, which is weird because it was working great with windows 7 installed previously

any ideas??