Hard drive failure?

[Gauge]

I have been haveing trouble with my computer randomly rebooting for a couple of weeks now. When trying to run Bestcrypt wipe to permanatly erase deleted files, I noticed that the computer rebooted everytime the wipe got to a certain file. A ".img" file. Anytime I try to do anything with that file such as delete, move, open, etc. the comupter reboots. I tried running fix disk error checking in Windows XP but the computer also shuts down and reboots before finishing this. I have gotten a couple of error messages latley during boot up saying something like "possible hardrive failure immenent, back up files now." Does this sound like my hard drive is failing? Is there any way to fix this or get rid of this file? If I need a new hard drive, I would like to just gost this drive onto the new drive. Will I even be able to do this if the computer shuts down everytime it gets to this point on the disk?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

You can turn on S.M.A.R.T. monitoring and download and run the diagnostic for you hdd from the manufacturers website to determine if the drive is failing. Post back with results

 

[Gauge]

After posting that message I did some reading and found someone else who also suggested downloading the manufacturer hdd diagnostic. I did that and ran the basic test and everything came out OK. I then ran the advanced test and it reported errors on the disk and asked if I wanted to try to correct them, I said yes. It told me the repair was successfull. The file I was having trouble with was deleted during the repair. I am runing BestCrypt wipe now and everything seems to be working good. The problem appears to be fixed. I will post back if I have any more problems. Thanks for the help.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Sounds like just a couple of bad sectors/clusters and now that their mapped off it should be fine. For example, I have a Maxtor that has a few bad clusters but since having mapped 'em off the drive has been running perfect for 4+months now.