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Aventinus

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From: On A Personal Voyage

Registered: 2010-09-11

Posts: 147

Hard Disk Problems Detected

Hard Disk Problems Detected
A hard disk is reporting health problems.

I get this message. I have triple boot (Arch, Ubuntu & Windows) and I don't get any error messages on the other two OSs. The error is for my 1.0TB internal HDD and the SMART status is: DISK HAS MANY BAD SECTORS.

Any ideas on why I get that message or how to disable it?

Thanks in advance.

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demian

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From: Frankfurt, Germany

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 709

Re: Hard Disk Problems Detected

If your drive supports self-tests, perform a long one and review the results:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartm … #Selftests
If the self-test doesn't confirm bad sectors you should do a system update with pacman.
Otherwise I'd prepare to back up my data.

Regards,
demian

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