[ubuntu-in] error while booting

[Dnyanraj Mali]

Hi,


On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 11:05 PM, <ubuntu-in-request at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> From: "Ramnarayan.K" <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
> To: Ubuntu India Local Community <ubuntu-in at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 18:59:40 +0530
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] error while booting
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> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Dnyanraj Mali <dnyanraj.mali at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> There is possibility that your hard disk has  some bad sectors(physical)..
>> or if you have some windows partitions on you hard disk, it might not been
>> properly shut down. I mean there might be some power failure when you are
>> using windows & next u booted in ubuntu directly..
>> If this is true then you need to restart in windows & run scandisk &
>> reboot in ubuntu.. your problem will be solved..
>>
>>
> I do have a wincedows partion , but haven't used it for many weeks now and
> when i last used it, i think it shutdown properly
>
> however under Ubuntu itself i think a few times the laptop was on battery
> and when into shutdown mode on its own after the battery was drained, and i
> think maybe once something happened and i could get no response so had to do
> a hard poweroff.
>
> So is there anyway to do scandisk without going to windows (meaning) any
> linux equivalent etc
>

have you tried the other option i  mentioned..  Booting from live CD &
running  fsck
Or if you have another Linux on any other partition you can try fsck from
that OS


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> thanks for the inputs
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> ram
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Regards,
Dnyanraj Nivas Mali

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