Possible hdd failure?

wxjunkie

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I've gotten some strange error messages the past few days, among them one that occurs when opening Photoshop, "Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error. Sorry but this error is unrecoverable."

In addition, I rebooted last nite to see if that error would clear up, but instead my motherboard lost recognition of my hdd until I opened the case and switched the power connector out on the hard drive.

However, not that the hard disk is recognized again, the same error exists in Photoshop.

Is this a warning sign that the hardware may be about to die? This is a Western Digital hard drive, 80gb 7200 that is less than a year old.
 

OverVolt

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Download Here The WD HD tools, check your harddrive for any errors, thats a start. Follow the directions on the page.