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HDD failure alert

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After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 Palimpses t

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Noade (romina-dumitru) said : 		#1

test gives me this warning message everytime i login :
DISK HAS MANY BAD SECTORS
Realocated Sector Count : 196638
It also tels me to buckup all information and replace my HDD. I have a HP Pavillion dv2000 notebook with Hitachi HDD. From what I see, it might be a bug.
Please help !

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Ryan Dwyer (ryandwyer) said : 		#2

It happened to me too, and the disk was indeed faulty. I could barely recover my information using a live CD.

I suggest you backup immediately.

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hadi (modarres-zadeh-gmail) said : 		#3

dont worry about it
just ignore it -> System -> preferences -> startup applications -> uncheck Disk notifications

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