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Dell Latitude E5500 Laptop Nerd thought my HDD was failing, but I wondered if it could be the motherboard or both, since it wouldn't boot a live/install Ubuntu CD in my disk drive. Sent the below info but haven't heard an answer so maybe since this is not a private msg someone can give me an...

Dell Latitude E5500 won't complete bootup. Diagnostics show 8+ blocks on sata disk that won't set time (IRQ)?? with an error code OFOO-1332. Diagnostics gives a number for each block. Is sata disk no good and that's why it won't boot. Will a new sata disk (hard drive) replacement fix this...