Apparently corrupted hard drive -- advice wanted

1. Create a bootable USB pendrive, flashing Trisquel Mini in it.
2. Boot from USB pendrive (you should press a special key while booting)
3. Mount internal drive from this "live" session and backup your data
4. Run "sudo fsck -kccy" on your internal drive

El 8/8/19 a les 3:05, name at domain ha escrit:
> Hi Trisquelers, I would welcome some perspective and advice regarding an
> apparently corrupted hard drive.
>
> Last Christmas I gave my brother a laptop from MiniFree, with Trisquel
> installed.  Just days ago he told me he booted it and it went straight
> to a busybox console.  Reading up on this, I understand that his boot
> partition is corrupted, and some flavor of fsck may fix it.  (Or at
> least some partition is corrupted, but he said it comes up in a few
> seconds.)
>
> But why would a hard drive be corrupted?  With a journaling file system,
> it's hard to corrupt it through user activity.  Might there be a
> hardware failure?  If this is the case, trying to fix it would actually
> make it worse, if it writes incorrect data to the drive.  Right?  The
> laptop is "new" although of course it was manufactured by Lenovo many
> years ago.  Is it odd for a drive to become corrupted?  (It's a
> solid-state drive.)
>
> He lives in another city, so I can't simply stop over and check things
> out in person.
>
> I could possibly talk him through using a simple application of fsck,
> but if it's wise to copy data first, that would probably be too hard to
> manage.
>
> What would you do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jim
>

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