hello all
I have been using ubuntu on my asus eee pc for quite some time. I had an older xp windows machine lying around. i wanted to completely remove everything it had and install ubuntu. so i got the ubuntu 11.04 live cd. I booted to the disc and then tried to install ubuntu 11.04. half way through the installation.. the thing got stuck and out of panic i just rebooted the machine.
so now after that i tried several times re-installing ubuntu but the install doesn't work. i am currently running this off of 'try ubuntu'. I ran the gparted and disk utility and it shows that i have some bad sectors in the 'master reboot record'.
the internal hdd information
model- ATA Maxtor 4R120L0
firmware version - RAMB1T0U
location - Port 1 of PATA Host Adapter
write cache - enabled
Capacity 123GB
device - /dev/sda
SMART data shows that two rows with 'ID' 5 and 197 are bad with some warning and red color text.
What I want to do is - do a clean install of ubuntu. I personally don't care about the existing data in the HDD. I just need a clean build
also i ran the gparted and it shows that it has total three partition under /dev/sda
-- /dev/sda1 -- shows warning icon with 'unknown' file system
--- /dev/sda2 with 'key' icon and shows 'extended' file system
---/dev/sda5 with 'key' icon and shows 'linux-swap' file system.
what can i do to fix this issue and do a fresh install of ubuntu?
any help would be appreciated. thank you in advance.
I have been using ubuntu on my asus eee pc for quite some time. I had an older xp windows machine lying around. i wanted to completely remove everything it had and install ubuntu. so i got the ubuntu 11.04 live cd. I booted to the disc and then tried to install ubuntu 11.04. half way through the installation.. the thing got stuck and out of panic i just rebooted the machine.
so now after that i tried several times re-installing ubuntu but the install doesn't work. i am currently running this off of 'try ubuntu'. I ran the gparted and disk utility and it shows that i have some bad sectors in the 'master reboot record'.
the internal hdd information
model- ATA Maxtor 4R120L0
firmware version - RAMB1T0U
location - Port 1 of PATA Host Adapter
write cache - enabled
Capacity 123GB
device - /dev/sda
SMART data shows that two rows with 'ID' 5 and 197 are bad with some warning and red color text.
What I want to do is - do a clean install of ubuntu. I personally don't care about the existing data in the HDD. I just need a clean build
also i ran the gparted and it shows that it has total three partition under /dev/sda
-- /dev/sda1 -- shows warning icon with 'unknown' file system
--- /dev/sda2 with 'key' icon and shows 'extended' file system
---/dev/sda5 with 'key' icon and shows 'linux-swap' file system.
what can i do to fix this issue and do a fresh install of ubuntu?
any help would be appreciated. thank you in advance.