Thanks for the answers! <div><br></div><div>I had not read the "<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ran dmesg, smartctl and others. They all indicated the same bad sector." reply.</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><font color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif">OP is this the 1520 you were wanting to replace the drive on anyhow? At least this would help justify the new purchase.</font></div>
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</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Judd Montgomery <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:judd@jpilot.org" target="_blank">judd@jpilot.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 12/06/2012 09:32 AM, Thomas W. cranston wrote:<br>
> On 12/06/2012 06:54 AM, Judd Montgomery wrote:<br>
>> On 12/02/2012 01:45 PM, Thomas W. cranston wrote:<br>
>>> Hi<br>
>>><br>
>>> > 12:39:48 tom@1520: ~/Desktop$ md5sum<br>
>>> linuxmint-14.1-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso<br>
>>> > md5sum: linuxmint-14.1-cinnamon-dvd-64bit.iso: Input/output error<br>
>>><br>
>>> Wondering if the above indicates bad checksum, or something wrong w/my<br>
>>> laptop?<br>
>>><br>
>> I've seen errors like that many times and it always means my hard drive<br>
>> is going bad and the file is on a bad sector. Did you look at dmesg or<br>
>> the syslog and see what the kernel is complaining about?<br>
>><br>
>> Judd<br>
</div><div class="im">> Bad sector<br>
><br>
> Ran dmesg, smartctl and others. They all indicated the same bad sector.<br>
><br>
> Tom<br>
</div>In my experience the bad sectors will rapidly spread and within days or<br>
weeks significant portions of the drive will be unusable and further<br>
more cause the OS to hang. I'd get what data off of it you can and buy<br>
a new drive if its important. Your experience may vary.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Judd<br>
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