Hello, i am having this really wierd problem
It started off with just a really random major freeze. I was just minding my own buisness, then bam, everything is totally frozen- no mouse- no cntrl-alt-f1. So, i hit the power button, and it scans my discs to check for errors it finds some. so i run fcsk and it hopefully repares all this stuff and then i boot into x, and everything seems find except ive lost some log files and ive got a bunch of random stuff in the lost+found.
SOO, i decide to reformat everything just to make sure things can be normal again. so i reformat, and install. everything ok. then on the fourth time i boot into linux, i do some stuff, and then install some stuff, then ca-pow.. its frozen. totally frozen like before. so, i hit the power button and then when i try to boot linux, it starts telling me the journal is messed up and theres all these "unfixable errors" and stuff. uh oh. so then i just let it sit a long time, and i come back a while later, and it has booted into x. no visible problems. is my hd messed up some how? were should i start trouble shooting? help? before this started happening, i went for like 3 months and nothing bad happend. its all wierd

Mandrake 10 official
radeon 7500
ext3 formatting
2.53p4
512mb ram
if that helps some.

-pinkey

Who the mfg of the HDD? If it is one of the major brands you can usually find their specific HDD diagnostics suite somewhere on the web. If you are able look at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com . This bootdisk actually comes with a good amount of mfg specific HDD diagnostics that would be great to detect your issue.

mke2fs "-cc" will do a (destructive, read the manpage) read/write test and spare out bad blocks. if you find that a specific part of the disk is dead (you'll get a list of errormessages either in your logs or to the console) you can move your partitions away from that spot. anyway, i won't rely on on this disk anymore. if you got warranty, give it back.

sl mritch.

i just pitched it out and ordered a pizza if you know what i mean.

got a 180gig hd for 130 bucks... minus a 100 dollar rebate