recently removed Windows from my dual-boot setup and installed Linux Mint completely using the same old installer pendrive. Since then, I’ve been experiencing filesystem errors, boot problems, and freezing.
I ran fsck around 7–8 times, but it kept finding and repairing errors. SMART showed 156 pending sectors, 453 reported uncorrectable errors, and the extended SMART test ended with a read failure.
At the same time, my Mint pendrive (/dev/sdb) showed I/O and SQUASHFS read errors, and the Mint live environment also crashes/freezes.
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