[xubuntu-users] Need help with needing help and support

[Steve Litt]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 22:26:40 GMT
"avengethecathars" <avengethecathars at juno.com> wrote:

> Cancel that. I found a fix. Thanks to veryone who offered help. (I
> needed to do approx. fsck /dev and then the name of the bad
> (inconsistent) sector, and then a huge bunch of fix (y/n) yes's. )P.

As soon as humanly possible, do a complete set of smartctl tests on all
this laptop's drives. One of many explanations for a bunch of bad
sectors is a hard drive beginning to go bad.

If you find out the drive is bad, use System Rescue CD to copy off all
your data from any bad drives.
 
SteveT

Steve Litt 
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