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

[Joshua O'Leary]

On 17/07/12 21:58, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Joshua O'Leary
> <joshua.oleary at btinternet.com> wrote:
>> Not sure exactly, perhaps 'enhanced' uses advanced features, causing it to
>> read/write the hard disk more.
>>
> I went ahead and passed all my partitions through:
> e2fsck -c /dev/sda#
>
> and 'badblocks' found several damaged sectors on '/dev/sda6'.
> Subsequently I switched back the BIOS settings from 'compatible' to
> 'enhanced' and the kernel booted up as expected. No issues so far.
>
> Here are the bad sectors identified and masked:
> root at liv-laptop:/home/liv# dumpe2fs -b /dev/sda6
> dumpe2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
> 1632184
> 3159944
> 3159945
> 3159946
> 3159947
> 3159948
> 3159949
> 3164995
> 3164996
> 3164997
> 3164998
>
> The only trouble is that the SMART short self-test fails with the same
> read error, at a different sector. I guess I'll try to run the fs
> check with 'badblocks' again.
>
> Regards
> Liviu
>
That explains why windows wasn't affected by the problem, since it 
cannot read (ext2/3/4) filesystems without configuration and drivers