Chris wrote:

Hello, I have Windows XP Pro installed on my 2-year-old 80 GB Western
Digital hard drive. I recently upgraded from Service Pack 1 to Service
Pack 2. Today, I checked event viewer and found this warning:

"The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has
predicted
that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your
hard disk
drive. A failure may be imminent."--Event ID: 52

and also this warning:

"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging
operation."--Event ID: 51

Is my hard drive really failing after just 2 years or is this
mis-reported? Is it something to do with having installed Service Pack
2?

At any rate, I'm backing files up now, but would appreciate any advice
as to what to do next, etc.

Thanks,

Chris

System specs: Athlon 1333, 512 MB PC133 SDRAM, Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200

The best way to find out the health of your hard drive is to run a
diagnostic utility from the hard drive mftr.'s website. Download the
file to create either a bootable floppy or cd. Boot with the media and
do a thorough test. If the hard drive has any physical errors, replace
it. If the hard drive doesn't have physical errors but shows a problem
with the file system, do a Chkdsk /r.

How to use Chkdsk:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...us/chkdsk.mspx

Malke
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