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I bought a Razer Blade Stealth a week ago, took windows off and installed Ubuntu 17.10. Used until today when it started saying that my hard disk was write protected while I tried to save simple files. Then I reboot and this happens:

fsck error on boot: /dev/...: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

for my root partition. I found several answers here telling me to run fsck. I did and it fixed for some time, but then the error happened again.

I just want to know if this is hardware or software related, and if I should worry, or if this is just a bug in the 17.10 version. I'm downloading 17.04 now.

Zanna
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Guerlando OCs
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    MOre likely than not hardware related. Backup any data you do not want to loose, then run smartmontools. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools – Panther Nov 10 '17 at 02:21
  • When you "took windows off and installed Ubuntu 17.10" did you reformat the partitions to a Linux-native type, or leave them FAT or NTFS? – waltinator Nov 12 '17 at 19:48

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You may have a hardware or a software problem. This is not a 17.10 bug, and installing 17.04 won't solve it.

First, as you've done before, lets check/repair your file system...

To check the file system on your Ubuntu partition...

  • boot to the GRUB menu
  • choose Advanced Options
  • choose Recovery mode
  • choose Root access
  • at the # prompt, type sudo fsck -f /
  • repeat the fsck command if there were errors
  • type reboot

Once completed, and rebooted, start the Disks application. Select your disk in the left column, then click on the "hamburger" icon and select SMART Data & Tests. Review the data and run the tests. This will give you some indication about the condition of your hard disk.

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  • The Smart Data & test options is gray, and there's no hamburger icon – Guerlando OCs Nov 10 '17 at 14:17
  • @GuerlandoOCs did you remember to select the hard disk in the left column? If you did select the disk, then maybe the disk doesn't support SMART, but that would be very unusual for a new computer. The "hamburger" icon appears in the top titlebar of the Disks app window. – heynnema Nov 10 '17 at 14:24
  • I would run fsck from a live usb rather than recovery mode. I would probably just skip to smartmontools as well. IMHO this is extremely unlikely to be a fsck bug as fsck "fixed" the problems (we are not getting a fsck error), but they recur. This is, in my experience, classic for impending hard drive failure. – Panther Nov 10 '17 at 14:54
  • @GuerlandoOCs - Did you back up your data yet ? If not, please back up any data you do not wish to loose as a first step . – Panther Nov 10 '17 at 14:56
  • Yes, all my data is backed up. This problem ocurred right after I installed Android Studio, but I don't know if there is a connection. And when I fixed with fcsk, the problem appeared again only when I closed and opened the notebook. When I installed ubuntu, it showed lots of problems with the closing/opening: mouse freezes after I close and open, and it started sleeping/waking randomly after this. All these problems were solved. Maybe this problem is also related to this, I don't know. There's no more disk problem after I reinstalled the OS, but I didn't close and open to see. – Guerlando OCs Nov 11 '17 at 03:04
  • I'm going to stay with it opened for some days to see if the problem occurs again. If not, I'll test after closing/opening to see if that's what causes it. – Guerlando OCs Nov 11 '17 at 03:04
  • by the way, gsmartcontrol can see the ssd, detect its name and some informations, but can't do any tests on it – Guerlando OCs Nov 11 '17 at 03:05