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Glad you got to the bottom of the issue. How did you become aware that the flash drive was at fault? On 19/03/16 10:35, Richard Brown wrote:
Hi All Thanks for all the replies. I did the checks on the hard drive and couldn't find anything wrong. It was frustrating and then by chance I found the usb pen drive was the element that had caused the problem. I bought a new stick, loaded up a new Ubuntu and reinstalled and everything is fine. I'm not sure if I could have repaired the install but there were so many problems I thought it easier to reinstall. Thanks for all the help. Rich On 17 March 2016 at 16:27, Ben Whorwood <ml-devcornlinuxgrp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:You can do automated tests using SMART: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/S.M.A.R.T. And use other tools such as badblocks: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/badblocks Although badblocks may not report anything because of how modern hard drives work, if you check the SMART output after running badblocks you can check for bad sectors and such which should give you a good indication of any problems. Be sure to backup before doing a destructive read and write test! (Optional but worth it to rule out any problems.) It might also be worth replacing all cables (SATA and using a different power connector) to rule out any problems and also try a different SATA port on the motherboard (or try each). If you still don't have a stable system and the above doesn't indicate something is wrong it could be related to controllers on the motherboard or other issues (CPU, memory) and so you'll need to start performing further reaching tests. Memtest, LINPACK, Prime95 and others are pretty good. A good distro / live CD for stress testing is: http://www.stresslinux.org/sl/ Without access to a system it is difficult to give more specific advice due to the sheer number of possible things that could potentially cause a crash. Good luck! ~Ben On 17/03/16 15:53, Richard Brown wrote:Hi Is it possible to test the drive please? Thanks Rich On 17 March 2016 at 09:52, Joseph Bennie <jay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:some older laptops crash using SATA III 3Gb or better drives ,as they don't all work* well if the controller is only a SATAII 1.5GB . sometimes its just a problem due to cheap connector ribbons but some are a bug in the controller. basically the ssd is too fast and the controller gets in a pickle or the interferance on the ribbon leads to checksum problems. Its not an issue with anything I've used in the last few years ... it only really applies to old hardware. usually dell or apple. *they are supposed to be backward compatible they also the possibility its just a bad drive.On 17 Mar 2016, at 08:05, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Thanks Nick. Any reason why it might be crashing please? On 17 March 2016 at 08:04, Nick Roach <nick.roach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Morning Richard, You should not need anything special, I have done a few ubuntu installs onto SSD's, not sure about the home drive part as never tried. Nick On 17 March 2016 at 08:00, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi All A couple of questions. I have a laptop with an ssd installed as the boot disk. It has Ubuntu 15.10 installed but it keeps stopping when loading the desktop and telling me the application has stopped. Do I need to do anything special for a ssd install please? Also is it possible to allocate the 2nd hard drive (in the dvd drive) as /home please? Thanks -- Kind regards Richard Brown Youth and Community Worker http://gucu.org.uk/ 07747 343637 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq-- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq-- Kind regards Richard Brown Youth and Community Worker http://gucu.org.uk/ 07747 343637 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq-- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq-- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq
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