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I'm using Lubuntu 14.04 on my older desktop. Sometimes when booting up, I get a message that "/" or "/tmp" could not be mounted, or else a disk error was detected and a disk check will start executing. Suspect that my old hard drive is beginning to fail. Is there a diagnostic that will indicate if it is the hard drive or the controller that is beginning to fail?

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If you suspect that your hard drive might be dying, I suggest running some kind of diagnostic software - but only after backing up all of your data! Sometimes this is built into the computer, and can be run by either navigating to the Diagnostic tab in BIOS,

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or there will be a key designated for this purpose, which you will have to press at startup.

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For a more in-depth diagnosis, I personally recommend downloading the Ultimate Boot CD, which includes ViVARD - a low-level HDD diagnostic software, which runs on top of DOS. This is a bootable image which you will have to burn to a CD, or write to a USB flash drive.

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