[xubuntu-users] harddisk failure, or Xubuntu refuses to load

[Joshua O'Leary]

On 15/07/12 15:12, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Joshua O'Leary
> <joshua.oleary at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> If you change the hard disk operating mode in the BIOS (e.g. ahci, ide etc.)
>> does it still have the same errors? Not all hard disks support advanced
>> features.
>>
> To my utter surprise, this seems to have done the trick.
>
> I accessed the BIOS and modified the disk operating mode from
> 'enhanced' to 'compatible', whatever that means. Now Xubuntu boots
> quickly, as expected. I checked 'dmesg' and it's clean (there are no
> relevant 'error' or 'sector' messages). All in all looks great!
> Thanks!
>
> The only issue that I notice is that 'xfce4-notes' refuses to start.
> CPU goes to 50% (2 cores). I'm not sure why this happens, especially
> since dmesg doesn't complain. But this is part of a bigger worry: As
> much as I'm happy that the system boots up gracefully again, I'd like
> to perform an audit to see if the disk is damaged and / or needs
> changed. Any suggestions on this point?
>
> Regards
> Liviu
>
Giving the output of *sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda* would be very helpful, to 
find out which area of the hard disk is damaged/faulty/corrupted. That 
way, we can compare it to the error, and find out what is actually 
affected. Running badblocks on the drive may also see if there are any 
other problems. When you run xfce4-notes from terminal, what does it 
output? You could try resetting xfce (*rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4*), which 
may lose some settings but remove any problematic config files.

Joshua

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