Thread: Ubuntu 12.10 installation gone wrong

so have external hard drive i've been using back-up (my old hard drive died) , last 2 things did on before started giving me error is: partioned drive ntsf , ext4, , tried installing 12.10 ubuntu onto (now) blank hdd.(but think somewhere in installation screwed up.) anyway here's error code:


error mounting /dev/sda1 @ /media/ubuntu/6c0313da-d2a0-4bd9-9b47-78552015d153: command-line `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sda1" "/media/ubuntu/6c0313da-d2a0-4bd9-9b47-78552015d153"' exited non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
in cases useful info found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so


please me asap. if gets on forum.

p.s if ur freaking godsend.
p.p.s im getting when run dmesg | tail:
[35373.968739] sd 10:0:0:0: >[sda]
[35373.968742] sense key : illegal request [current]
[35373.968747] info fld=0x0
[35373.968751] sd 10:0:0:0: >[sda]
[35373.968755] add. sense: logical block address out of range
[35373.968760] sd 10:0:0:0: >[sda] cdb:
[35373.968762] write(10): 2a 00 1e 41 09 20 00 00 18 00
[35373.968777] end_request: critical target error, dev sda, sector 507578656
[35373.968804] jbd2: recovery failed
[35373.968812] ext4-fs (sda1): error loading journal

p.p.p.s im running off live cd atm. hdd 500gb. half tb wasted.

i understand tried installing external hd have tried making live usb? instructions here.

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