I have a Western Digital (WDC WD800BB-00JHA0) disk with 80GB with two partitions, one is 53,6 and other 20,8 GB, on the larger one I have WinXP SP2 installed
The configuration is some 2 yrs 10 months old, and I got this problem during summer. During work, it sounded as if the drive simply stops and there was no light indicator and system would become irresponsible for few moments until it starts working.
Then it stopped booting up, giving me the blue screen. When I started to reinstall windows, it said that HDD is corrupted and I had to format it, losing many great things.
now, few days ago, i started the PC, and again the same thing, blue screen, reinstalled the windows and it works good, though at moments it seems as if HDD is not working and if I am copying something, it stops until indicator starts again.
but the other partition remains intact, so it doesn't seem to be physical problem? What should I do to make my data safer (and not to buy a new HDD)?
thanks in advance
The configuration is some 2 yrs 10 months old, and I got this problem during summer. During work, it sounded as if the drive simply stops and there was no light indicator and system would become irresponsible for few moments until it starts working.
Then it stopped booting up, giving me the blue screen. When I started to reinstall windows, it said that HDD is corrupted and I had to format it, losing many great things.
now, few days ago, i started the PC, and again the same thing, blue screen, reinstalled the windows and it works good, though at moments it seems as if HDD is not working and if I am copying something, it stops until indicator starts again.
but the other partition remains intact, so it doesn't seem to be physical problem? What should I do to make my data safer (and not to buy a new HDD)?
thanks in advance