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SMART says disk failure is imminent due to bad blocks, what do I need to do?

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http://askubuntu.com – I have on my hard drive 2 OSes: Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows Vista (I keep it just because of school). Everything was OK on both OSes, but one day on Ubuntu I was getting awkward noises from my notebooks' hard drive and then everything stopped and I couldn't do anything. On Windows everything was OK. Every time I boot Ubuntu I can get 5 minutes normal run time, without problems. After that the hard drive sounds crazy and nothing works. I could run S.M.A.R.T tests from a older Ubuntu CD (10.04) from the GUI (Disk Utility, or something like that and from terminal). From the GUI, I got that the DISK (HowTos)

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I have on my hard drive 2 OSes: Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows Vista( I keep it just because of school). Everything was OK on both OSes,but one day on Ubuntu I was getting awkward noises from my notebooks's hard drive and then everything stops and I couldn't do anything. On Windows everything was ok.

Everytime I boot on Ubuntu I can get 5 minutes of normal run, without problems.

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My windows vista crashed and wouldn't accept a retrieval so I installed ubuntu 12.04 that I had on disk. I keep getting a message 'Disk Utility' A hard disk is failing. :mad: (Running Ubuntu off a 'CD') I have two drives in my system drive 'C' the main drive and drive 'D' how do I format them so as I can install Ubuntu permanently? :D

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