I ran into similar kinda problem a year ago as some suddren power surge corrupted my hdd. Your drive probably has bad sectors, to solve this:
1. boot from live cd (ubuntu/kubuntu or something else) 2. in terminal sudo e2fsck -ccvyfk /dev/hda3 This marks the bad sectors and tries to recover them. Note: This will run for a long while so get some snacks :P I hope this solves your problem. -- Abu Zaher Md. Faridee http://zaher14.blogspot.com/ --- Time heals every wound, but time itself is a wound that never heals. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGe0jOdVa/MdfMwL4RAqSyAJ9INMai8lvC52m0QacQHrdP8nSF4wCfYCbm KhUCSwVQtcvZ4VZtxJEciAo= =zx6F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
