9.10 upgrade says I have failing hard drive

[kingofpain]

Doing a long test (including repairing) with "Seagate Seatools for DOS" solved my problem!
Actually... it reduced the number of sectors "waiting to be reallocated", so, no more warnings for my Seagate drive

[Aenari]

I've got the same message, but in that my hard drive is one day old, I'm thinking Bug.

[Isakill]

I upgraded to 9.10 on both my desktop and laptop.
The desktop reports that both my harddrives are failing and the laptop as well.
at first I was worried about my laptop until I upgraded my desktop. Now I see this as a minor annoyance.

BTW both computers are dualboot WinXP/ubuntu.
and Windows reports no such problems.

[swatsbiz]

My new hard drive which was less than a month old died Yesterday I guess I should have paid attention to the warning.

Is there anyway that 9.10 could cause a Hard Drive failure? My original thoughts were that it couldn't?

Or I just bought a dodgy hdd

[venomheir]

Hey team, Dont know if it is a bug or not but I personally believe it may be true, my friend has dell inspiron 8600 40 gig hard drive running windows xp sp3,has boot up problems, blue screen of death, when it does boot it is extremely slow, I did a live test using ubuntu 9.10 i386 and it reports multiple bad sectors.
My brothers hp pavilion laptop 250 gig hard drive has been
running ubuntu 9.10 64 bit since release with no errors.
On the dell inspiron I will update bios as it is behind by 14 Revisions, perhaps that may help? Oh yeah my cousins laptop was running ubuntu 8.04 32 bit and often upon boot ubuntu would show orange scan disk in left corner, performed upgrade to 9.10 32 bit
and it reports failure bad sectors, hard drive is also a 40 GIG ????

[infine0n]

Same problem here, with a Compaq Presario R3000. It's got a 60GB Hitachi Travelstar HD, showing:

Normalized: 100
Worst: 100
Threshold: 5
Value: 65551 (!)

Everything's backed up just in case, but I'm going to ignore this warning.

I've got a Compaq Presario R4000 w/ 80GB, now that I've found this thread I am no longer worried about this.

Normalized: 100
Worse: 100
Threshold: 5
Value: 4194597 sectors

I also ran chkdsk/R under Windows 7 and it found no bad sectors.

[MasterLenus]

I installed Ubuntu a few day ago and every time I booted it showed me the warning that mi HDD is failing. I have a Samsung HM329JI HDD

2190 sectors are bad.

[SeePU]

Yeah, just ignore it. It's a bug and the utility is crap. It's just more of the same of Ubuntu .... not caring what programs/utility is part of it and whether things are working or not.

[xieqiao]

You are right. I have the same problem after upgrading to 9.10. Just ignore it, and wait for 10.04 to resolve the bug.

Actually, I added the Alpha upgrade source for 10.04 and upgraded to 10.04 Lucid yesterday. The problem disappered first time I booted into Lucid, although the bug reappeared today.

[keta]

Just to note that the same happens to me in my laptop with an ATA Samsung HM160HI. I chose to ignore it and everything works fine. If I had any sensible data, I'd probably have made a backup, though.