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Is my hard drive toast?

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happybelly

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One of my hard drives started acting strange yesterday. I have the hard drive split into two partions, I can only access one of them now. My computer tries to run a chkdsk on the partition I can't access every time I boot my PC(I boot from another drive).

It keeps finding and deleting corrupt attribute list entry's and corrupt attribute record's. It also finds a lot of unreadable file record segments.

I ran a SMART test with the WD diagnostic tool and it fails. I also tried the everest test.


Here are the results from everest:


ID Attribute Description Threshold Value Worst Data Status
01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 172 1 1017 OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 21 253 225 3525 OK: Value is normal
04 Start/Stop Count 40 100 100 336 OK: Value is normal
05 Reallocated Sector Count 140 167 167 513 OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 51 200 200 0 OK: Value is normal
09 Power-On Time Count 0 78 78 16314 OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 51 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
0B Calibration Retry Count 51 100 100 0 OK: Value is normal
0C Power Cycle Count 0 100 100 316 OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 117 92 35 OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 73 73 127 OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 200 188 60 OK: Always passing
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 200 200 0 OK: Always passing
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 253 14 OK: Always passing
C8 Write Error Rate 51 92 1 4345 OK: Value is normal

Sorry for the formatting.

WD's diagnostic says the issues are raw read error rate and write error rate. I don't know exactly what that means as far as my hard drive dying or not.

I'm getting no clicking or other strange noises usually associated with a dying drive.

Any advice?
Thanks


Update posted below.
 
Well, here's another problem. I want to take out my dying drive until I get an external tomorrow to try and retrieve what I can. The problem is when I take out the dying drive, I get a boot disc failure.

I don't get it, I've been in a dual boot setup with XP home on the dying drive and media center on the good drive. I know the hard drive with media center is fine, why would I get a boot disc failure on it taking out the dying drive?
 
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