@Jakob No data on the drive, replicating this issue means allowing it to be utterly erased as the installer erases and automatically partitions the entire drive.
Currently I have it going through the destructive read-write you referenced. However, as you can see from the initial output it's not having any problems with that. I'll post the final output once it's completed. $ sudo badblocks -wvs /dev/sda1 Checking for bad blocks in read-write mode >From block 0 to 38331057 Testing with pattern 0xaa: done Reading and comparing: done -- Unable to install using ext4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512002 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs