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[ubuntu] fried HDD

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I have around 20 PC with Ubuntu installed, only ubuntu is installed on the whole HDD of 250GB. one of this PC had a problem once when i tryed to boot it, grub filesystem unknown error came up, and i had the grub rescue command line, i searched the web and many guys seems to find the problem and fix it, but i actually couldn't, i couldn't even install again the system because when i tried to run a live USB installation, it froze when trying to recognize the partitions. I supposed the HDD was faulty and leave it at that, i bought a new HDD and everything is fine since then. Now another (Hardware)

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