I cannot format anymore the hard drive of my laptop.
Here is how I proceed:
I am starting my computer with a USB live drive (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx).
Then I start disk utility and try to format the hard drive - I choosed to format the Master boot record but I get the following error:
Error creating partition table: helper exited with exit code 1: Error
calling fsync(2) on /dev/sda: Input/output error
If I try to delete partitions I get the following error
Error erasing: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_del_partition:
device_file=/dev/sda, offset=32256 Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0,
size=30005821440) MSDOS_MAGIC found looking at part 0 (offset 32256,
size 4096157184, type 0x83) new part entry looking at part 1 (offset
10618836480, size 8414461440, type 0x83) new part entry looking at
part 2 (offset 19033297920, size 1077511680, type 0x82) new part entry
looking at part 3 (offset 20110809600, size 9895011840, type 0x07) new
part entry Exiting MS-DOS parser MSDOS partition table detected got it
got disk got partition - part-type=0 Error: Input/output error during
write on /dev/sda ped_disk_commit_to_dev() failed
If I try to install ubuntu frrom the usb on the hard drive and choose erase and use the entire disk I get the error message
Input/output error during write on /dev/sda
For side infos I have at the moment 4 partitions on my hard drive:
/dev/sda1 (ext2)
/dev/sda2 (ext2)
/dev/sda3 (swap)
/dev/sda1 (ntfs)
+ /dev/sda (unlocated Space)
My ultimate goal is to reinstall ubuntu and have only 2 partitions...
I would really appreciate any help here!
Thanks
JB
