If the disk / partition is not formatted in ext4, ext3, ext2, then it is not working?

Question

linux

I'm trying to install ubuntu but I'm getting an error: root partition is not formatted to ext4.
In gparted, it also fails to format in ext4, but it is formatted in ntfs.
PS: Not long ago this hard drive cracked like firewood.

Answer 1

"PS: Not long ago this hard drive was crackling like firewood in a cauldron."
After this phrase, you can safely throw it away

Answer 2

It's still a question of how you format it, if you mounted it, then the system will not let you format it. If the disk is not a pity to format it completely, you can try to re-create the partition table (gpatted also has it). But then the other disks will die. And so I myself can not understand what's the matter. It may be that the hard drive already has bad sectors on the disk, then it has less and less to live, I just lost partitions on this in a day, they seem to be there, but they seem to be gone.

Answer 3

First of all, look at the bootsector of your disk. If it is MBR, then most likely for this reason it is not possible to install Linux, since new versions of distributions only recognize GPT, since the MBR is outdated. And the matter is hardly in the file system as such.
If you put Ubuntu in a dual boot with Windows, then look through the diskpart utility for information about the boot sector. The conversion from MBR to GPT occurs during the installation of Windows itself via GPT, which will erase all data on the disk. Either without data loss through various third-party disk management programs (AOMEI Partition Assistant, for example), but this is already at your own peril and risk.