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How can I recover my Ubuntu partition?

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First I got a error message saying that no init found blah blah on booting up. I thought of clearing it via Disk Utility, doing so results me in File mounted or opened by another program.

I tried even GParted, which doesn't help me. This again results in same problem saying that File mounted or opened by another program.

Notably the disk utility says there are 423 bad sectors in my disk, but the problem is that I couldn't clean or repair it! For example running my SMART self test results in FAILED(READ).

Now I need my Ubuntu back to be running. How I can do that? Am a newbie to Ubuntu and I felt really hard of recovering from this problem.

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answered 2 Years ago oatglori · Accepted Answer

I found a solution to my problem, I used Ubuntu 10.04 Live cd, which resulted me in error while repairing the disk stating that :

File mounted or opened by another program.

But I downloaded Ubuntu 11.04 iso file and booted it from my USB. And done these steps :

1)Opened up Gparted, selected my disk which has a bad sectors (which can be found from Disk Utility Tool), and did a check on it by Partition -> Check.

2)After that go to Edit -> Apply all operation, click on the confirmation message that appears.

It will take some time and all the errors have been cleared and now my Ubuntu is recovered.