Hard drive crashed -- need advice

[fido123]

Use the liveCD they're recommending though, or alternatively go to Software Sources on your liveCD and make sure you have your repo's checked off under the 3rd tab or something like that.

EDIT: If you look at the second code box it says:

Originally Posted by http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=881344

You might resize at 16865632256 bytes or 16866 MB (freeing 23060 MB).

Originally Posted by http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=881344

In theory, I could resize to 16866 MB, but this is just an estimate. Playing it safe, I decide to resize to 19000MB. I want to make sure there are no unexpected problems so I do a test run of the filesystem resize operation (the --no-action prevents it from changing anything, the -b is short for --bad-sectors):

He got those results from what would be in your case the output of:

ntfsresize -ib /dev/sda2

Maybe even try it on sda1 and sda3 if sda2 doesn't come up with any bad sectors aka doesn't display:

Originally Posted by http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1244058

WARNING: This software has detected that the disk has at least 1 bad sector.
WARNING: Bad sectors can cause reliability problems and massive data loss!!!