Hi!
I have en Asus Laptop (2,5 yers old) and yesterday I left the computer for about 30 min while updating. When I came back it had crashed! Never seen anything like it before! The only thing I could anderstand on screen was I/O errors. I first thought that root partition was full and I read about it came to the conclusion that reinstall was the best option. Well I wasn’t able to reinstall because of I/O errors during partition! fsck is unable to set superblock flags.
I have now used win10 to check the disk. It won’t even initialize! Win10 says inreparable damage on the disk. I do not believe much of windows but here it says the same as linux did so it is probably dead!
If you can get into a system with it connected then check with lsblk, if it doesn’t show up it’s dead. If the system takes a long time to boot it’s also a sign. You can run S.M.A.R.T tests as well but they seem unreliable once it has issues.
Hi again friends!
I remember now that all started with root partition showing out of space. SMART could not perform and fsck showed a whole lot of I/O errors. Itried with a couple of live-distros and got the same results. I even tried with win10 but the disk would not even initialize.
Tried with older hdd and that worked with no problems. So now I am sitting and thinking if I should wait and buy a new ssd or start a new system with old hdd.
I will probably make up my mind.
Problem is as solved as it can be! Thanks for interest and support guys!!