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CyberMst

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Registered: 2024-06-17

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My laptop disks are damaged

A few weeks ago I tried to copy several files that were 14 GB in size to my laptop. But while copying, the laptop hung and did not move, so I had to turn it off manually. But after rebooting I couldn't boot into Arch Linux. One thing I have to say is that I encrypted it using the LUCKS on LVM scenario. After waiting for a while to boot I got a message saying /dev/mapper/root not found. I was very scared and connected the USB in which I have the Arch installation file to the laptop and tried to mount the encrypted disks manually. But again I encountered an error stating that the disk was not found. I then ran fdisk -l to see the laptop's disks, and to my surprise, there was no /dev/sda at all. (My disks are SSD). I installed my Arch Linux with Windows dual boot, so I went to Windows and saw that it doesn't boot at all. So what I did was to activate Automatic Repair and I saw that my laptop problem was solved.

Now, after a few weeks, I again tried to copy heavy files from my phone to my laptop, and the same problems occurred to me again, and I repaired again. I have done this for about 6 times and finally gave up on copying files. But since then my laptop has become very slow so that it takes several minutes for the desktop environment to load and when it does it is very slow and hangs. After using Linux for a while, the same thing happens again and the laptop hangs, and I have to turn it off and repair it again. Once, instead of using Desktop environment, I used tty and after working with it for a while, I got a sed error that said input/output. How to solve this problem?

cryptearth

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Registered: 2024-02-03

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Re: My laptop disks are damaged

How to solve this problem?

Replace the drive - it's faulty.
Also: Run benchmarks like memtest, prime95 and furmark after drive replacement to check for other issues - maybe there's something else bad - in that case you're screwed anyway.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 75,277

Re: My laptop disks are damaged

Might also be a bus or temperature error, check https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SMART first.

Also

I installed my Arch Linux with Windows dual boot, so I went to Windows

3rd link below. Mandatory.
Disable it (it's NOT the BIOS setting!) and reboot windows and linux twice for voodo reasons.

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