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What to do if Disk Utility shows bad sectors pending in SMART?
I just recently installed Ubuntu (latest version) alongwise my Windows XP. First, after trying the Live CD, it was giving me messages about hard disk failure.
I decided to go ahead and dual boot with my Windows XP. The first problem that I had was that it didn't give me the option to install alongside Windows XP, and the "Something Else" wasn't very helpful in manually having to define my own partitions. I restarted my computer and tried again, and still didn't show it.
I left for an hour or so and came back and restarted again. This time, it did show the option to install alongisde windows, so I did it, leaving 20 GB on my Windows Partition and 40 GB on my ubuntu partition.
I still get popups often about the disk failure thing. In SMART Data it says this:
Reallocated Sector Count Normalized: 134 Worst: 134 Threshhold: 140 Value: 526 Sectors
Failing
Now, I've never had problems with this in Windows. Could this possibly be an error? My computer is a Dell Latitude D630 laptop computer. Can I still use the laptop as normal?
