I don't have enough hardware knowledge to say for sure that my "Many bad sectors" is true, but I have been using the disk for a long time now, without problem.
I saw this error message when using the Live CD also. -- palimpsest bad sectors false positive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-disk-utility in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs