Well, I had my hard drive crashed some weeks ago. My Ubuntu (14.04) automagically froze and after the moment I pressed the restart button, and it prompted me with busybox prompt. I tried booting with the Live Ubuntu CD, but could not mount my drive (root partition). I continued booting with my Live USB of Mint 17 (cursing Ubuntu, of course) with some persistence space. After some days, the drive stopped appearing (in the BIOS too). Just before writing this question, it suddenly appeared, (first in my board's boot menu). I tried running Gparted to format the drive (so that i could install Mint), but gparted aborted with an error. Details Here!  . And eventually it stopped appearing. Could anyone tell me what's wrong with my drive by seeing the gparted error details? Thanks in advanceGparted Error Details: GParted 0.18.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resizeLibparted 2.3Format /dev/sda5 as ext4  00:06:35    ( ERROR )calibrate /dev/sda5  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )path: /dev/sda5start: 4001792end: 625141759size: 621139968 (296.18 GiB)clear old file system signatures in /dev/sda5  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )write 68.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 274877906944  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 318023659520  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )flush operating system cache of /dev/sda  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )set partition type on /dev/sda5  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )new partition type: ext4create new ext4 file system  00:06:35    ( ERROR )mkfs.ext4 -L  /dev/sda5Filesystem label=OS type: LinuxBlock size=4096 (log=2)Fragment size=4096 (log=2)Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks19415040 inodes, 77642496 blocks3882124 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super userFirst data block=0Maximum filesystem blocks=42949672962370 block groups32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group8192 inodes per groupSuperblock backups stored on blocks:32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616Allocating group tables: doneWriting inode tables: doneCreating journal (32768 blocks): doneWriting superblocks and filesystem accounting information: 2/2370mke2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.========================================
Hard Drive Crash / Gparted Error or Something Else
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