Fdisk Unable To Read Input/output Error
Contents |
Get Kubuntu Get Xubuntu Get Lubuntu Get UbuntuStudio Get Mythbuntu Get Edubuntu Get Ubuntu-GNOME Get UbuntuKylin Ubuntu Code of Conduct Ubuntu Wiki Community Wiki Other Support Launchpad Answers Ubuntu fdisk unable to open /dev/sdb IRC Support AskUbuntu Official Documentation User Documentation Social Media Facebook Twitter Useful Links
Fdisk Cannot Open /dev/mmcblk0 Input/output Error
Distrowatch Bugs: Ubuntu PPAs: Ubuntu Web Upd8: Ubuntu OMG! Ubuntu Ubuntu Insights Planet Ubuntu Activity Page Please read before SSO /dev/sdb input/output error login Advanced Search Forum The Ubuntu Forum Community Ubuntu Official Flavours Support Installation & Upgrades [SOLVED] Input output error on read /dev/sda Having an Issue With Posting ? Do you want to help
Input/output Error During Read On /dev/sda
us debug the posting issues ? < is the place to report it, thanks ! Page 1 of 3 123 Last Jump to page: Results 1 to 10 of 22 Thread: Input output error on read /dev/sda Thread Tools Show Printable Version Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode June 9th, 2011 #1 Manuj19 View Profile View Forum sdb: unable to read partition table Posts Private Message 5 Cups of Ubuntu Join Date Jun 2011 Location India Beans 21 Input output error on read /dev/sda This all started when i install kubuntu 10.10 on my Western Digital Hard drive. It installed perfectly but one day i was not able to boot to kubuntu. so i tried to install it again but got the error "INPUT OUTPUT ERROR ON READ /DEV/SDA" and installer is not detecting windows partitions I have 120G western digital wdc wd1200bevs-22rst0 hard drive. I have tried following commands 1) fdisk -l this doesn't detect my hard drive 2) sfdisk -l read error. cannot read sector 0 3) Gparted live cd input output error 4) test disk (gparted live cd) read error 5) test disk(windows version) no error detected 6) smartmontools completly passed.no error detected 7) windows is saying that hard drive is healthy 8) even the manufacture's life diagnostic tool says that hard drive is healthy 9) tried to burn the cds at slowest speed and even with usb stick . no luck 10) completely wiped the hard drive 11) tried the alternate cd but still no luck 12) used 'fsck' but still failed I have tried ubu
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and
Gparted Input/output Error During Read
policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the
Input/output Error During Write On /dev/sda
company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Super User Questions Tags Users Badges error fsyncing closing dev sdb input output error Unanswered Ask Question _ Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts and power users. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1778717 Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Input/Output Error during fdisk with Passport up vote 1 down vote favorite I bought a brand new WD Passport off Newegg. I couldn't copy anything to it (copy operations hung indefinitely then ended with IO error), so I tried reformatting it via the http://superuser.com/questions/615529/input-output-error-during-fdisk-with-passport GUI. It now appears to be formatted as EXT4. Unfortunately, I still couldn't copy things to it. It formatted suspiciously fast (a few seconds; it's a 1TB drive). So I figured maybe it formatted wrong. So I tried: $ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb1 and got: fdisk: unable to read /dev/sdb1: Input/output error What do I do?! I'm in Ubuntu 12.10 in case it matters. linux ubuntu hard-drive share|improve this question asked Jul 4 '13 at 12:26 Hut8 158128 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote fdisk works on disks, not partitions. On Linux, a disk is referred to as e.g. /dev/sdb, whereas the partitions on it are referred to as /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2 etc. Note that old-style (/dev/[hs]d?, /dev/[hs]d??) partition specifiers always end with a digit, whereas disk specifiers always end with a letter. If you just format the disk (no bad blocks checking etc.), then a format time of a few seconds is not entirely unreasonable. All you did was write the initial file system metadata structures to disk, and while I don't have any exact number
Registered: 2009-03-15 Posts: 20 Help with recovering a external HD!! I have a Western Digital 80 gig external HD. My teacher in Windows Server 2003 tried to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68384 install Windows Server on his external and now it won't boot. He said he tried tons of windows apps but no luck. I had him to give it to me for a while and I tried a few things. I tried sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb /media/test output error andsudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /media/testcfdisk does not detect sdb and niether does gparted. parted does but can't do anything with it. dmesg | tailsd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0 end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled input/output error during sense code sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : 0x3 [current] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0 end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 FAT: unable to read boot sectorlsusbBus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1058:0701 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Offline #2 2009-03-26 12:22:41 perbh Member From: Republic of Texas Registered: 2005-03-04 Posts: 765 Re: Help with recovering a external HD!! mkdir /media/testmount /dev/sdb1 /media/test(note that the majority (if not all) external hd's have at least _one_ partition on them)You could try:fdisk -l /dev/sdbto see the partition table Offline #3 2009-03-26 12:39:08 KuroYoma Member Registered: 2009-03-15 Posts: 20 Re: Help with recovering a external HD!! when I type fdisk -l /dev/sdb I get nothing it just returns to [blah@blah ~] I tried doing it without the -l option and got Unable to read /dev/sdbAfter that command I dmesg | tailsd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled