Problem regarding the start up of my laptop

Asked By Salie Givson 70 points N/A Posted on - 09/11/2012

 

Hi experts,

I have been facing problem regarding the start up of my laptop. The current configuration of my laptop is Mint 13 x64bit. Few days ago, while starting up, I found that it took about 20 seconds than the normal start up. Nowadays, it adopts the same delay start up with some awful error message like “buffer I/O error on device…”, “logical block 0..” and so on.

Have you any idea regarding this issue? Is it a serious issue?

Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

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Answered By Brent kennedy 0 points N/A #131193

Problem regarding the start up of my laptop

Hi,

Based on the symptoms you just described, it seems that the reason why you are getting this message on Ubuntu is because of a loose cable. Try to check the cables if they are plugged in properly. If they are then it could be that there are corrupted sectors or possibly a failing HD. You may want to start creating backups of all your files before things get worst.

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• Posted on - 09/13/2012
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