Netbook "sealed": unable to mount

[uxvc]

Hi, everyone.
I'm stuck with this.
Well, this old netbook...with 2 OS installed: Windows 7 & Linux Mint.
One day, windows failed to boot. I tried everything, and nothing worked. So I tried to save some things there with Linux,
then suddenly:

error: hd0 read error
grub rescue-



I use live-usb-install, with an ubuntu 10.04
Problems with NTFS, so I format the USB in FAT32.

Running ubuntu from my USB give me access to some part of the netbook (a data folder) but I don't have access to windows.


Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13:
ntfs_attr_pread failed: Input/output error
Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case runchkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for more details.



Tried a few guides...using sudo ntfsfix /dev/sXXX, but doesn't work.
Any help will be -really- appreciated.



PS Sorry for the grammar -_-

[oldos2er]

I think you'd need to boot from your Windows installation medium and let it chkdsk its partition, but I'm not a Windows user so it'd be best if you ask this on a Windows forum.

[VMC]

Sounds like a hard drive error. If you can get to a linux terminal (dvd disk), then run smart disk:
"sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda"

[uxvc]

Thanks for the replies.

well, I can only run it from the usb stick. Looks like the smart disk doesn't work.


Just now there's a warning about errors in a lot of sectors.
This looks bad. Any chance to repair or check the hard disk, running ubuntu from the usb?

[oldos2er]

I don't think any Linux distro can repair

NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware.

That's why you need a Windows medium.

[uxvc]

Ok. Thanks...what a mess.

I think i'm gonna try to find if I can repair somehow the Grub.
I was stuck with the error: hd0 read error before trying the ubuntu stick.