VMWare Input/Output error on ubuntu host Win7 guest
- by CShipley
I am running ubuntu 10.10 as my host with Windows 7 as the guest. About a couple weeks ago I started getting error pop-ups from vmware reporting inability to read or write to a particular file.
On futher investigation, I've noticed that I cannot copy that particular file from the linux command line even as root. I get the same input/output error.
The SMART utility tells me I have 69 bad sectors on the disk (it is 1 TB)
So my question is 1) How do I tell if that HD is going bad? 2) How can I move the VM files to a different part of the disk if I get read/write errors when I try to copy?