Installing ubuntu mate crashes says drive fault

[Brett Keith Cawte]

It was reading sda as sdb, so I used repair disk. It seems to have corrected it because I opened up gparted and it was showing SDA correctly Trying to install ubuntu mate it crashed saying the drive my be faulty

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.2 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Sat Oct 15 02:07:17 2016
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=(loop)/casper/vmlinuz root=UUID=446E-02B7 maybe-ubiquity debian-installer/language=en keyboard-configuration/layoutcode= iso-scan/filename=/ubuntu-mate-16.04.1-desktop-i386.iso boot=casper file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntustudio.seed noprompt quiet splash --
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release i386 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Yes, your drive is failing; you will need to replace it.