Is my hard drive dead?

[dabuddha]

After I rebooted this morning, chkdsk/disk doctor kept bringing up errors like this upon bootup

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "")
from file record segment 65169.
Correcting a minor error in file 69825.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "")
from file record segment 69825.
Correcting a minor error in file 88245.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "")
from file record segment 95569.
Correcting a minor error in file 98569.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "")
from file record segment 98569.
Correcting a minor error in file 99365.

I was still able to boot up in windows (XP) but when I started backing up files off my C drive, a few of the files would give me a cyclic redundancy check error or something to that effect. Will reformatting fix my problems or could it be a hardware problem.

TIA!

 

[EeyoreX]

Run the manufacturers diagnostic programs. It came on a floppy if you bought a retail drive. Alternatively, it is available free at the manufacturer website.

\Dan