sorry if the question was asked before, searching brought nothing up.
OS: Ubuntu Gnome 17.04
Computer: Acer Aspire v5-131-10074g50akk
The Problem: Most of the times when I want to boot the laptop it just shows the message "Read Error". Sometimes waiting a few hours, sometimes just turning it off and on again, and sometimes opening the PC up and reinserting the cable into the HDD works to make it boot again, but I could not find a consistent pattern.
Thus I assumed that maybe my disk was failing, but instead all parameters in the S.M.A.R.T. show up OK.
I'm thinking that maybe the harddrive could still be at fault, or maybe a loose connection of PC and HDD? What could be the reasons for my systems behavior, and what steps could I take to test them?
Again, if this question has been posted before please refer me to that thread.
Thanks in advance gempie
*Edit: I forgot to mention that I sometimes get a message "Read Error", and sometimes the message "No bootable HDD found [or similar]" on boot.
grep -i sda /var/log/syslog*
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