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Stephen_A
May 29th, 2008, 05:29 AM
I'm having trouble installing 8.04 on a Dell 1150. The installation normally hangs. While it was working I checked the disk space - it should have been 30Gb - and it only showed 16Gb.
During the attempted installation the text appears:

Buffer I/O error on device sda1

Am I right in assuming that the HD may indeed be faulty or approaching the end of its life?

Thanks in advance.

iaculallad
May 29th, 2008, 05:43 AM
Try visiting this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1653875), You have similar problem.