allright, I will try that, thanks everyone for the advice!

On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sunday 16 Feb 2014 00:25:55 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On 16/02/2014 02:20, Will Hopper wrote:
> > > This is not at all unlikely - the virtual machine is running in a
> windows
> > > host that was created by restoring from backups after a drive failed.
> > > Also, the 'new' disk it was restored to is not really a new disk at
> all.
> > >
> > >
> > > I am not really knowledgeable about virtual machines at all - would
> > > deleting this one and creating a new one help, given its troubled
> > > ancestry, or is the answer get a new disk?
> >
> > Only you can answer that properly.
> >
> > Step 1 of course is to do some proper disk diagnostics using your tool
> > of choice, and base what you do next on the results of that.
>
> Install and run smartmontools inc. 'smartctl -t short' and then '-t long'
> for
> your drive.  If you get no errors, the you can use dd to write zero's over
> the
> partition/file, then create a new virtual partition and format it and fsck
> it
> before you reinstall your virtual OS guest on it.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
>
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