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t was not a hardware problem. It was something about the BIOS that was confusing all the installers. I'm not sure what it was but I changed a few things and was able to install lubuntu 15.02. What a...

t was not a hardware problem. It was something about the BIOS that was confusing all the installers. I'm not sure what it was but I changed a few things and was able to install lubuntu 15.02. What a...

It was not a hardware problem. It was something about the BIOS that was confusing all the installers. I'm not sure what it was but I changed a few things and was able to install lubuntu 15.02. What a...

I was choosing the option to overwrite the disk. I tried with no network, but nothing works to boot off of hard drive. The hard drive is fine--I can look at files on it, I can write to it, just can't...

I'll try the offline idea. I don't have a DVD on this computer.

It also said it couldn't submit a problem report because of 3rd party software

I tried installing lubuntu from the usb stick (for the nth time) It failed again, this time witha new hard drive. The last message it gave was: trying to overwrite...

I have been using lubuntu for several years but recently my computer crashed when I tried upgrading to 14.04. I was able to recover most of my data from the old hard drive and had a friend mail me an...

I am having my friend from CA mail me my extra hard drive that I left there. I already bought and installed new RAM. Can you look at that SMART report I posted and tell whether there is anything else...

Hell if I know, Tom. I can't really see the output because of the looping, but I do see the seffault. I don't know how I was supposed to use the super GRUB2. Perhaps once I have the hard drive loaded...

to clarify: I did not ask for a memtest, I just told the menu to boot from USB, then the only option on the next menu was "default". When I selected that it gave me the same output as previously when...

So based on this diagnostic, what should I do? Do I need to replace hard drive, or is the bad sector repairable?

OK, some progress. First, the failed memtest happened the same way (seg fault and endless looping) when I tried loading the super GRUB2 boot software from a usb stick. I loaded the software onto the...

Thanks! Unfortunately I do not have a CD/dvd drive. I may buy the rescue media you suggest.

OK, but why was it working before? And what specifically is not working anymore?

And remember, all this started with attempting to install lubuntu 14.04.

Or maybe I can get them from another computer with internet, and transfer them through a usb memory stick?

I meant to say that I can't download those packages to check the hard drive without internet

With the new 16Gb memory stick, the same thing happens with memtest (seg fault). The attempted installation from live debian onto the hard drive fails at the grub boot install, as before, and also (I...

I was typing fsck into the terminal cmd line. Also looked in lib and root. On both usb and hard drive. But maybe it only comes with ububutu, not debian. I just got another usb stick which I loaded...

None of these (gddrescue, SMART or fsck) are to be found.

I didn't know the OS environment (debian in this case, not Ubuntu--that was what I started with, but then someone told me to try debian) is loaded into the RAM. In any case, I can run memtest86+ from...

Is there a debian alternative to ddrescue?

I tried chmod +x memtest86+.bin but it says file not found when I tried to run it on the hard drive. On the USB it has no .bin file by that name (at least in /usr/lib) just an .iso and a .elf file.

The hard drive looks good right now from the file manager. I look in /media/usr/boot on it and I find all sorts of programs including memtest86+.bin, but I cant type that in a terminal (I guess it...