I repeatedly receive a message from Disk Utility on screen, which says "A Hard Disk is reporting health problems."
On clicking the Examine button, I am taken towards a window,which says Disk failure is imminent
On viewing SMART Data and running self tests I was taken to new window which shows "564 bad sectors on top right hand corner, and also says that "back up all data and replace the disk"
I tried to various commands to run disk repairing wizard, but unfortunately every time, a pop up window with warning regarding bad health of drive appears and nothing happens.
System is core i3 with 2GB RAM and 320GB hard disk with following description,
on writing
sudo fdisk -lu
it printsDisk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000e4a21 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 104859647 52428800 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 104859648 314574847 104857600 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 314574848 551428095 118426624 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4 551430142 625141759 36855809 5 Extended /dev/sda5 551430144 621228031 34898944 83 Linux /dev/sda6 621230080 625141759 1955840 82 Linux swap / Solaris
on writing,
root@ubuntu:~# sudo fsck -y /dev/sda5
I got:fsck from util-linux 2.19.1 e2fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010) /dev/sda5: clean, 137141/2182992 files, 708304/8724736 blocks
on writing,
root@ubuntu:~# sudo fsck -pcfv /dev/sda5
I got:fsck from util-linux 2.19.1 /dev/sda5: Updating bad block inode. 137141 inodes used (6.28%) 18 non-contiguous files (0.0%) 106 non-contiguous directories (0.1%) # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0 Extent depth histogram: 109527/3 708304 blocks used (8.12%) 0 bad blocks 1 large file 84575 regular files 13613 directories 57 character device files 25 block device files 0 fifos 0 links 38862 symbolic links (27519 fast symbolic links) 0 sockets 137132 files
Thank you.