I bought a 500 GB Seagate SATA drive (finally I could afford it) and installed
8.10 on it (on the entire drive). It is working OK
Lately, at startup, before Ubuntu boots up there is a message from the BIOS
that "S.M.A.R.T status bad, backup and replace". Then "Press F1 to resume". Is
the engine faulty in the hard disk ? There are some crackling sounds sometimes.
Is there any program for Ubuntu that diagnoses faulty hardware components ?