is my hard drive dying?

[Dan Egli]

Brian Beck wrote:
> the extended test is reporting that everything is good to go, it found no 
> problems.
> 
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Then you have two possibilities remaining:
1) Your kernel is imagining the errors (not likely)
2) Your controller is returning signals that the kernel interprets as 
errors (more likely).

Can you try a different hard drive?