Did smartcrl tell you how many spare sectors you have left? <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Thomas W. cranston <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 12/06/2012 06:54 AM, Judd Montgomery wrote:<br>
> On 12/02/2012 01:45 PM, Thomas W. cranston wrote:<br>
>> Hi<br>
>><br>
>> > 12:39:48 tom@1520: ~/Desktop$ md5sum<br>
>> linuxmint-14.1-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso<br>
>> > md5sum: linuxmint-14.1-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso: Input/output error<br>
>><br>
>> Wondering if the above indicates bad checksum, or something wrong w/my<br>
>> laptop?<br>
>><br>
> I've seen errors like that many times and it always means my hard drive<br>
> is going bad and the file is on a bad sector. Did you look at dmesg or<br>
> the syslog and see what the kernel is complaining about?<br>
><br>
> Judd<br>
><br>
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</div></div>Bad sector<br>
<br>
Ran dmesg, smartctl and others. They all indicated the same bad sector.<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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