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Old 07-28-2015, 06:02 AM   #16
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It depends on the computer.

I'd had a mishap by not paying attention and trying to write a USB stick, and not checking device names. Turns out on my laptop if I boot, even from the internal drive, with a USB stick in a port, the USB stick gets assigned sda and the internal HDD as sdb. Guess how I found out the hard way.
You are absolutely right. And again, I'm not saying that it is the case, but normally (not always), the USB sticks are assigned to /dev/sd[bc]

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Old 07-28-2015, 06:29 AM   #17
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the shit it that i had this virus on my computer for more than a week i tried to remove it with adaware and another program but it wouldnt go away and then one day my PC frooze but i could move the mouse around, and then it has been frozen since only showing a still Toshiba start of logo and then a black screen saying some like: no device and reboot computer or something , my computer is only 6 month old i can only go into the Toshiba System utility on it (BIOS is called right?) Do i need to format it with a format program before the instalation maybe?

But thanks alot i will check the sums of the file when i come home.

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It depends on the computer.

I'd had a mishap by not paying attention and trying to write a USB stick, and not checking device names. Turns out on my laptop if I boot, even from the internal drive, with a USB stick in a port, the USB stick gets assigned sda and the internal HDD as sdb. Guess how I found out the hard way.
In newbie words what does this mean?

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Old 07-28-2015, 08:02 AM   #18
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In newbie words what does this mean?
It means to never take for granted, as HMW says, what is supposed to happen "normally". There's always an exception. The more info you can provide, the better we can help.
 
Old 07-28-2015, 11:42 AM   #19
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the first thing its says is ERROR cannot find backligt controller

the MD5sum i matching............ its still saying "Buffer I/O error on device sda...." and when i scan the pendrive for error in the install menu of ubunti it says error found in 2 files does not make sense... im afraid my harddisk really dont work, Is it possible for a virus to kill a Harddisk?

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Old 07-28-2015, 11:51 AM   #20
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the first thing its says is ERROR cannot find backligt controller

the MD5sum i matching............ its still saying "Buffer I/O error on device sda...." and when i scan the pendrive for error in the install menu of ubunti it says error found in 2 files does not make sense... im afraid my harddisk really dont work, Is it possible for a virus to kill a Harddisk?
I am not familiar with Ubuntu anymore. But I am sure a lot of users here are. But, you say you can boot from the USB, is a program called GParted available?

If so, you could try to erase and format your hard drive with that program. You can also check for errors with GParted.
 
Old 07-28-2015, 01:02 PM   #21
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Yes i can boot and i can run Gparted.
What happens is that it says Libparted Bug Found: Input/output error during read on/dev/sda

Then it ask me to retry ignore or cancel and no matter what i press nothing happens..

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Old 07-28-2015, 11:56 PM   #22
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Can you give us the output of

Code:
dmesg | grep sda
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I'd like to see which drive is using /dev/sda.
 
Old 07-29-2015, 02:31 AM   #23
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how to i write the dmesq code? i never used linux before?
 
Old 07-29-2015, 03:43 AM   #24
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Boot the USB, and when it's done booting, you should see a window asking if you want to install Ubuntu or try it. Select Try Ubuntu.

From the panel on the left, click to open a terminal window.

Type this in the terminal window, pressing Enter after

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dmesg | grep sda
Copy & Paste the output here, if you can.
 
Old 07-29-2015, 09:50 AM   #25
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Weird i can look on my files on the harddisk now was not able to yesterday, but how do i make the "|"?? haha
 
Old 07-29-2015, 11:32 AM   #26
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but how do i make the "|
On the US English keyboard, it is the key above the Enter key, hold down the shift key. For other languages you'll just have to look for it or let us know what language and someone should be able to help.
 
Old 07-29-2015, 04:29 PM   #27
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sd 0:0:0:0 [sda] CBD:
end_request: I/O errer, dev sda, sector 2099200
Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 0
sd 0:0:0:0 [sda] Unhandled sense code

It writes this alot of times
 
Old 08-04-2015, 02:19 AM   #28
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Anybody have an idea what this message means?
 
  


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