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Is this sign of hard drive going bad?

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Winky

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I have a WD 160GB IDE hard drive with two paritions which has been working properly using Windows XP Pro for more than a year. Lately, now and then when I try to power up the PC, it does not go past the BIOS screen and I some message that Master Boot Record not found. In those cases, I switch off the PC, wait for some time and when I boot-up, it works.

I ran a CHKDISK with fix errors option and it did not seem to find any problem. Just to be safe, I have copied the important data to another drive.

What can I do to fix this problem? I can not seem to reproduce this error on every boot-up.
Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: Winky
I have a WD 160GB IDE hard drive with two paritions which has been working properly using Windows XP Pro for more than a year. Lately, now and then when I try to power up the PC, it does not go past the BIOS screen and I some message that Master Boot Record not found. In those cases, I switch off the PC, wait for some time and when I boot-up, it works.

I ran a CHKDISK with fix errors option and it did not seem to find any problem. Just to be safe, I have copied the important data to another drive.

What can I do to fix this problem? I can not seem to reproduce this error on every boot-up.
Thanks.
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