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Hi,
I've had Arch installed since a year now, and I installed Windows 8 on the same laptop about a month ago. (I lost my Win7 partition to some sort of corruption, but I didn't bother investigating then, and just fomatted and installed Windows 8 there.)
Since then, Win8 got frozen (wierdly enough leaving the mouse cursor movable) quite a few times , and each time I had to resolve that by forcibly powering down the laptop by holding down the power button.
Trouble is, Windows has suddenly stopped booting after one such forced power-off, and after this incident, whenever I boot Arch I get a bunch of
hard drive errors. Moreover, Arch usually always takes two attempts to boot Arch since then.
It always freezes after the flurry of terminal output, with a black screen just before it's supposed to start KDE. But after a laptop restart, it logs into KDE just fine. (At the next restart I need two attempts again):
I can no longer mount sda3 (my Windows partition).
I get these errors while booting Arch :
partial dmesg output: (complete output here : http://pastebin.com/VnuNtX4u )
[ 4.293921] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[ 4.293983] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[ 4.294038] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[ 4.294096] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:08:02/00:00:19:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
res 41/40:00:00:08:02/00:00:19:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
[ 4.294169] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 4.294223] ata1.00: error: { UNC }[ 4.307082] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 419563520
[ 4.307141] Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 16384
[ 4.307216] ata1: EH complete
[ 6.201008] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[ 6.201072] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[ 6.201140] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[ 6.201201] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:08:02/00:00:19:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
res 41/40:00:00:08:02/00:00:19:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
[ 6.201290] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 6.201357] ata1.00: error: { UNC }[ 6.214357] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 419563520
[ 6.214439] Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 16384[ 24.717577] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[ 24.717583] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[ 24.717586] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[ 24.717592] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:08:02/00:00:19:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
res 41/40:00:00:08:02/00:00:19:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
[ 24.717595] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 24.717597] ata1.00: error: { UNC }[ 24.730628] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 419563520
[ 24.730632] Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 16384
[ 24.730667] ata1: EH complete
[ 26.835341] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
[ 26.835348] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
[ 26.835351] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
[ 26.835358] ata1.00: cmd 60/08:00:00:08:02/00:00:19:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
res 41/40:00:00:08:02/00:00:19:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
[ 26.835361] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 26.835363] ata1.00: error: { UNC }[ 26.848394] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 419563520
[ 26.848399] Buffer I/O error on device sda3, logical block 16384smartctl output after a short self-test: http://pastebin.com/wFYu5r7C
The problem persists even after I've disabled NCQ (which some forum posts here and elsewhere suggested to do).
1) Is my HDD dying ?
2) Is there a way to avoid having to necessarily restart once whenever I start my laptop? (Basically ignore/suppress these errors ?)
3) Is there a way to fix the Windows partition from Arch? I tried ntfsfix to fix sda3, but this problem persists even though ntfsfix reports a successful 'fix'.
Last edited by flak37 (2013-12-17 08:24:45)
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