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I am getting Input/output error while opening a folder in 12.04. Also, I am not able to see file in another folder.

I am getting below error. Please help me recovering the folder.

Error: Error when getting information for file '/media/Data/softwares/windows': Input/output error
Please select another viewer and try again.
Emerson Hsieh
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Dinesh
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It is likely that your Data disk may be dying or at least have it's filesystem corrupted (which, again, is often a symptom of the disk dying).

Firstly make sure you have backups of all important data on that disk.

Then you can check S.M.A.R.T. status of the drive and run self-checks. If the checks say the drive is OK then run a filesystem check utility, depending on the type of filesystem you have on that drive.

  1. Read the wikipedia article

  2. Install smartmontools package

  3. Read Ubuntu wiki

  4. Run "long" or "extended" test on the drive with sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sdX, wait for it to finish, see if the test completes successfully, possibly paste the output of sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX here

Sergey
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It could mean that the directory is FRAGMENTED or that the Hard-Disk isn't reading right from the surface and it wont load the folder. This happens to me sometimes try re-installing ubuntu

user86210
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