[ILUG] Is this the end?

[Timothy Murphy]

When I boot, my laptop tells me:
"Buffer I/O error on device hda3, logical block 1775552"
with the same message about logical blocks 177553,4,5
as well as logical blocks 0 and 1.

e2fsck will not run:
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[tim at martha ~]$ sudo e2fsck -c /dev/hda3
e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
e2fsck: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while 
trying to open /dev/hda3
Could this be a zero-length partition?
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[tim at martha ~]$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 7919 MB, 7919493120 bytes
15 heads, 63 sectors/track, 16368 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 945 * 512 = 483840 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1       12402     5859913+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2           12403       12610       98280   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           12611       16368     1775655    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
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while badblocks seems to list all the blocks as bad.


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Timothy Murphy  
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