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About two months ago I created a dual boot on my HP Pavilion x360 with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04. On Friday, my laptop wouldn't boot and told me it couldn't find the OS. I ran the diagnostics provided through HP and it told me that SMART tests would pass but the Long DST was failing.

I got Ubuntu 18.04 on a USB and that's what I'm currently on. With that, I ran the Ubuntu-provided diagnostic on my harddrive. It fails the self-test but all the individual tests say they're OK. Is my hard drive failing? Could this be caused by a bad partition? Which test is causing the assessment to fail?

I'm a new Ubuntu user. This is really the first time I've used it. Thanks!

Here are my partitions

Here's the SMART test results, part 1

Results, part 2

Alex Mertz
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    Failed is not good, but sometimes gives false info. Have you tried chkdsk form Windows on all NTFS partitions and fsck on all Linux partitions? http://askubuntu.com/questions/642504/ubuntu-14-04-is-not-booting-normaly-after-a-manual-hard-boot/642789#642789 – oldfred Jun 18 '18 at 17:13
  • I can't boot to Windows so I can't run chkdsk from Windows. – Alex Mertz Jun 18 '18 at 17:44
  • I ran e2fsck like the answer you linked to suggested on my Linux partition and got this:

    Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found. /dev/sda6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options)

     – Alex Mertz Jun 18 '18 at 17:45
  • I ran sudo badblocks -sv /dev/sda6 and got Pass completed, 128 bad blocks found. (128/0/0 errors)

    I ran fsck for my linux partition manually, and it fixed a bunch of things. I'm not really sure what it means though. I can post it but it's a lot of lines I'd need to type out by hand.

     – Alex Mertz Jun 18 '18 at 18:08
  • Will not be much help. Lots of bad blocks could be an issue. Often it is a quickly growing list of bad blocks that is impending failure. A few is often ok. You should use your Windows repair flash drive to run chkdsk from its repair console. – oldfred Jun 18 '18 at 19:03
  • I ran GParted, and noticed a warning on my windows partition. Information says:

    "Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because of this some operations may be unavailable. The cause might be a missing software package. The following list of software packages is required for ntfs file system support: ntfs-3g / ntfsprogs."

    I ran sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g and then sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda3. The partition "was processed successfully", so I refreshed GParted and it still gave me the same error/warning.

    I'm thinking that partition might just be officially useless?

     – Alex Mertz Jun 18 '18 at 19:09
  • Unfortunately don't have a windows repair flash drive. This computer just had the default Recovery partition and I never relocated that to a USB. – Alex Mertz Jun 18 '18 at 19:10
  • No, especially after ntfsfix. The Linux NTFS driver will not mount hibernated nor partitions needing chkdsk. The ntfsfix turns on the chkdsk flag so it will show errors. And usually Windows 8 or 10 turns on fast start up which is just hibernation. Updates to Windows will turn it back on again. http://askubuntu.com/questions/843153/ubuntu-16-showing-windows-10-partitions & Find a friend with Windows (same version, ie 64 bit & Windows 10) and use your blank flash drive & create a repair flash drive. Or download new Windows which will work for 30 days but you may be able to use it as repair disk. – oldfred Jun 18 '18 at 21:40

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