So, I turned off my PC the other night (usually leave it running all the time, but it had been sluggish and due for a reboot at the very least), and the next morning I hear this horrible noise while booting up. That noise has usually been attributed to fans, which I've had to replace on many occasions. However, when I opened the case, I saw nothing noticeably wrong with any of the fans while the noise was occuring. Thinking I may have just not caught sight of the problem in time, I shrugged it off.
Later that day, for unknown reasons, I felt compelled to look at the System Event log in Computer Management. There I saw a Warning entry from the driver for my main HD that the drive is supposedly about to fail.
I ran chkdsk on both partitions of the physical drive (it ran twice on each, for some reason), but nothing was reported as bad, nor anything in Device Manager to indicate that the drive was not working properly.
To be safe, I started transferring data to my RAID mirror (changing the location of My Documents, in particular) in the event of a catastrophic failure (which I've never had in my 20 years computing experience).
I later found oddly named files, such as "Y'" (file), "1/4 1/4" (folder), and "ñ," (file) located in the "Documents and Settings" folder under my User account.
I don't see any of these weird files anywhere else, however, so I thought perhaps they are related to redirecting My Documents, though I've never heard of such a thing.
So, is my drive really going kaput? I was tempted to Ghost my drive so I could just pop a new one in and have everything exactly as it was, but not if Ghost is going to include these weird corrupt pseudo-files as well.
Later that day, for unknown reasons, I felt compelled to look at the System Event log in Computer Management. There I saw a Warning entry from the driver for my main HD that the drive is supposedly about to fail.
I ran chkdsk on both partitions of the physical drive (it ran twice on each, for some reason), but nothing was reported as bad, nor anything in Device Manager to indicate that the drive was not working properly.
To be safe, I started transferring data to my RAID mirror (changing the location of My Documents, in particular) in the event of a catastrophic failure (which I've never had in my 20 years computing experience).
I later found oddly named files, such as "Y'" (file), "1/4 1/4" (folder), and "ñ," (file) located in the "Documents and Settings" folder under my User account.
I don't see any of these weird files anywhere else, however, so I thought perhaps they are related to redirecting My Documents, though I've never heard of such a thing.
So, is my drive really going kaput? I was tempted to Ghost my drive so I could just pop a new one in and have everything exactly as it was, but not if Ghost is going to include these weird corrupt pseudo-files as well.
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