Situation: Hard drive failed to boot could not be fixed with my level of knowledge
Action I took : Bought new Hard drive and loaded Ubuntu 14.04 (had a copy handy) on it. I then used "Nautilus" command to access information on the original disk and copy all the files I wanted onto new Hard drive.
Question: Is it safe to reformat the original broken hard drive and use it as a storage drive for my movies? It appeared to be working fine other than the boot sector?
Thanks!
Bryan.
sudo apt-get install smartmontools && smartctl --scan
, edit your question and post the output.