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

[Joshua O'Leary]

On 17/07/12 12:59, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Joshua O'Leary
> <joshua.oleary at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>  From comparing the sector error to the partition table, the problem seems to
>> be with this partition:
>>
>> /dev/sda6       187607133   240862544    26627706   83  Linux
>> Not sure whether this is the rootfs or your home partition, you would need
>> to get the UUID of this partition, and compare it to /etc/fstab.
>>
> Yes, I also think so. This partition is /. Next I was planning to run
> e2fsck -c /dev/sda6
>
> from a GParted LiveUSB on the unmounted drive so as to include a check
> for 'badblocks' in the FS check. This would allow the FS to mark these
> sectors as 'bad' and avoid them in the future. Does this sound like a
> good idea?
>
> Moreover, it bugs me not to know _why_ changing the disk operating
> mode from 'enhanced' to 'compatible' made the FS ignore the bad blocks
> and allow Linux to boot up properly. Any ideas why this helped?
>
> Regards
> Liviu
>
Not sure exactly, perhaps 'enhanced' uses advanced features, causing it 
to read/write the hard disk more.