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Some files turning to 0 bytes--help please.

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Essentia

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I've noticed over the last few weeks that some files on my hard drive that were intact a month or so ago are now 0 bytes. It's not a huge amount (say, 8 files out of a chunk of 3700), but it's still making me worried. I ran a virus scan and it found nothing. Does anybody know what's wrong?

I'm running XP Professional, if that helps.

Thanks in advance.
 
Do you think this means that my hard drive is on its way to dying? Last night I installed Rise of Nations, and when I tried to play it this morning I got an error referring to something as "not found." I reinstalled and the problem was fixed.

Should I be worried?
 
Run a thourough scandisk. If you HD is failing this should tell you. If scandisk passes run your anti-virus software to make sure you don't have a virus.
 
Make that Chkdsk - no ScanDisk in XP Pro. Or . . . Norton Disk Doctor + Scandisk.
 
Ran chkdsk, it found two corrupt sectors, I think it said...both in the system restore section. Those were the only errors. Should I continue running chkdsk over the next few days and see if the errors keep coming? Would that mean that my hard drive is on its way out?
 
Bad sectors are never a good thing. Check the warranty page at the drive's manufacturer's website to see if your drive is under warranty yet. Just be aware, your data must be backed up before you send the drive back to them, as you will not get the drive back.
Download and install AIDA32; run the program. Open the Storage section, and then the SMART section. Click on the drive there that's giving you problems with the bad sectors. See what the info is for Raw Read Error, Seek Error, and Hardware ECC Recovered rates are.
If there's no info available there, you might need to check BIOS - I don't know if it'll be in the basic or advanced BIOS setup menu; something to enable S.M.A.R.T. though (self-monitoring and reporting technology). Then give AIDA32 a try again.
 
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