hard drive problem

[kp3509]

My hard drive has recently developed a problem
At ramdom times it stops spinning and keeps trying to spin up again and my computer basicly freezes or crashes. The drive works sometimes and I can access all the data but it dies everyonce in a while. I think my other partition on it works fine. Anyone know how to fix it?

 

[eth00]

Sounds like the drive may be dieing...backup anything valuable. After you do that run some sort of a disk checking program, the manufacturer should have one. Another option is you have linux run badblocks and see if you can get it to have problems.