Is my hard disk dying or a controller problem?

[wanchan]

I have a P4 2.2Ghz system as P2P seedbox. Lately its IDE disk where Windows XP is installed is acting up badly. I am seeing the below two log reports a few times a day under Windows Event Viewer. It seems whenever Windows hangs identical logs are created. The problematic IDE disk has been running 24x7 for the past 3-4 years or so. It's a Western Digital 200GB disk. The disk has two partitions - partition 0 (C🙂 for Windows XP and parition 1 (D🙂 for storage.

Is my hard drive dying or a controller problem? Please enlighten me! Thanks!!!

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: System
Event ID: 51
Date: 6/30/2009
Time: 12:16:22 PM
User: N/A
Computer: XYZ
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: IdeChnDr
Event Category: System
Event ID: 5
Date: 6/30/2009
Time: 12:16:22 PM
User: N/A
Computer: XYZ
Description:
A parity error was detected on \Device\Ide\IdeChnDr0.

 

[Lanyap]

Probably hard drive dying. Download and run the WD Data Lifguard Diagnostic tool to confirm.

http://support.wdc.com/product...sp?groupid=502&lang=en

 

[starfireone]

I have seen control drivers give those same errors before. Try updating your ide controller drivers or uninstall them and run MS Windows default IDE controller drivers and see if the problem goes away.