This is an old bug without any recent activity. It seems from the
information provided that this is a hardware issue. We are thus closing
this bug.
Thanks!
** Changed in: ubuntu
Status: Incomplete = Invalid
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harddisk destroyed during installation
** Changed in: ubuntu
Assignee: David Tomaschik (matir) = (unassigned)
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harddisk destroyed during installation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139455
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I had something similar once. The DriveReady SeekComplete Error thingies
indicate something physically wrong with your drive. Either it was
already dying or there may be dust in the connector (or at least a bad
connector), which caused me reformatting a perfectly functioning drive
and so I was the
i just tried to repartition my disk. if i just delete all the
partitions, fdisk finishes without errors. if i make new partitions,
fdisk gives this warning: WARNING: Re-reading the partition table
failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
i also noticed that the number of cylinders is way to
With properly functioning hardware, it should be quite impossible for
software to physically damage anything. It's possible it's just a
driver bug. Do you still get those errors from the LiveCD? What OS is
on your primary hard drive?
Can you provide lspci, lsmod and a fresh (from bootup) dmesg
