Re: Hard Disk Error

Hello,
You may need to check your partn using a live cd or by any rescue
cd.just run e2fsck -f /dev/sda.it will point out errors and to fix
them or not.If errors are coming after fixing also,may be ur
harddisk..check it..

On 1/12/06, Githin Alapatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On my new laptop, when i booted I got this error:
>
> EXT3 fs error: Journalling Error
> and then it mounts the disk as readonly. And I can log in to the X
> only sometimes. And it scans hard disk every time i boot up saying
> that there are errors. It takes more than five minutes to scan my
> whole root partition - 30 GB
>
> There is a tool in the bios which is like "Hard disk self test". When
> i do it, sometimes I pass, sometimes I fail.
>
> After I boot, if i do fsck. I get lots of errors.
>
> My laptop is brand new, is this a serious error? How can i rectify it?
> I can change the hard disk as it is under warranty.
>
>  It was working fine, one fine day (yesterday- not all that fine day)
> this error occured. I dont remember doing anything particular for the
> error to occur.
>
> It took me more than a day to make my laptop the way it is now!! All
> my cool features and stuffs. Can i copy all the files to my new hard
> disk and still get my old OS or do I have to copy only the home folder
> and then install a new OS and then do all the rest of the work?
>
>
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