I was installing Linux, when during the middle of the process the installer sent this error message (or something similar):
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| [Errno5] Input/output error |
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| This is often due to a faulty CD/DVD Disk or drive or a fault hard disk.... |
I was installing from a flash drive into my hd. My HD is a 40GB disk that recently has been corrupting OS installation. A couple times in the last months, when I boot up it says it cannot find a certain block and I end reinstalling the OS. This time wasn't this error that forced to reinstall it, but now, for the first time, I received the above error message from the installer. The disk still work as a data storage device, I mean, I can access the data in the other partition, is always the one with the OS that causes trouble, the sdx5 one
Anyway, I bought a new HD, it arrived today. I connected the power cable, the Sata cable. It took a long time for the bios to recognize it, but it finally did and I then proceeded to install the OS from the pen drive.
The boot process started to took a long time, so I restarted the cpu and changed some boot options to be bale to read what was being informed during the boot process. Here some messages that I noted. The ... is for stuff that I did not write
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| res 40/00:00:00 Error ... Timeout |
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| device not ready (errno=16)) |
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| failed to Identify (i/o error) |
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| link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) |
When it finally starts the OS, the hard drive does not appear on the installed, neither on gparted. Only a program called Disk Utility shows it and is not able to format the drive:
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| Error creating partition table: helper existed with exit code 1: In part_create_partition_table: device_file=/dev/sda, scheme=0 ped_device_get() failed |
So basically I would like to have an idea if there is anything I can do to solve these issues, or if I should already plan to return the new hard drive and to acquire another one.
