[Wiltshire] Suspect hard drive infant mortality

[Mike Paglia]

Hi,

It has been a long time since I have done this but fsck -a -AR then your
drive, normally fixed most things

Good luck

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 15:43, David Fletcher via Wiltshire <
wiltshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Could somebody please take a quick look at this before I return the hard
> drive I bought last month?
>
> https://flightmaker.hopto.org/photos/IMG_20201118_145511_231.jpg
>
> I got it set up with Mint 20, all working beautifully, then a few
> mornings ago it did that. Not good.
>
> Now, it tries to boot but just goes to the grub options screen. If I
> select advanced options (either kernel) I get to the screen in the
> picture.
>
> I suspect I have a duff hard drive. From the start while I was
> installing everything the laptop seemed to be vibrating slightly, as if
> the platter(s) were not quite balanced properly.
>
> Thanks for taking a look.
>
> Dave
>
>
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