Need Help

[strat_0]

So, I'm brand new to Linux having switched over from Windows 7.
I seem to be having 3 Main problems.
First, when I start up, it says no such partition found or something like that a few times until I keep trying to boot and it finally gets through. I also keep getting a notification about drive failure. When looking at the SMART data it says I have 2047 bad sectors, Is this the cause?

Second, the bars on top and bottom of the screen like where it shows time and username and stuff is missing a bunch of characters. For example, instead of my name, CoryJackson, it has C yJ . Is this also because of the hard drive?

Third, all the drop down menus for Firefox are slanted

[sagirfahmid3]

Holy crap! 2047 bad sectors, thats really bad!
That can very well be causing the bootup problems (especially if the MBR, the first 512Bytes of the HDD, is involved).

I dunno about the Firefox and graphics issues. Might be graphics card causing it.
Can you take a screenshot of your SMART data and post it here?

[strat_0]

well, screenshots arent working. I think my hard drive is pretty much fubared. Even though I'm still using it...However that works.

I'll just type out the smart stats
Read Error Rate:
Normalized 83
Worst 83
Thresh 50
Value 0

Throughput Performance:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 50
Value NA

Spinup Time:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 1
Value 1 second

Start/Stop Count:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 0
Value 2692

Reallocated Sector Count:
Normalized 1
Worst 1
Thresh 50
Value 2047

Seek Error Rate:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 50
Value 0

Seek Timer Performance:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 50
Value NA

Power On Hours:
Normalized 91
Worst 91
Thresh 0
Value 159.7 days

Spinup Retry Count:
Normalized 153
Worst 100
Thresh 30
Value 0

Power Cycle Count:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 0
Value 2690

Gsense Error Rate:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 0
Value 178

Power-Off Retract Count:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 0
Value 163

Load/Unload Cycle Count:
Normalized 99
Worst 99
Thresh 0
Value 14868

Temp: 99F

Reallocation Count:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 0
Value 1722

Current Pending Sector Count:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 0
Value 0 sectors

Uncorrectable Sector Count:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 0
Value 0 sectors

UDMA CRC Error Rate
Normalized 200
Worst 200
Thresh 0
Value 1

Disk Shift:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 0
Value NA

Loaded Hours:
Normalized 95
Worst 95
Thresh 0
Value 97.7

Load/Unload Retry Count:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 0
Value 0

Load Friction:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 0
Value NA

Load-in Time:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 0
Value 236 msec

Head Flying Hours:
Normalized 100
Worst 100
Thresh 1
Value NA

And it wont run any of the self tests either...I'm guessing new disk?