Hard drive with exclamation marks

[mavromatis]

Hi. My pc starts the first time after being harshly shutdown and runs about some minutes before shutting down. After that I can't boot the pc to even post or even if I did I see the blinking char after the post screen. With checking during post details I see exclamation marks right after the name of the drive which is a ST3320620A. After some unsuccessful tries it starts without problem and runs until I shut it down or when there is a power outage. It run for days without problem after the period of no boot and not even a single disk error. Chkdsk telling me the same thing too. I'll probably get a new hard disk during summer but do you think I can hold to this one and/or fix it somehow?

 

[staticlag]

Maybe a cable error?

 

[mavromatis]

Switched cables and still the same. Repartitioned the drive and installed Ubuntu. The problem is still there, can't boot or read properly form that hard disk and it has exclamation marks at the end like: "ST3320620A! ! ! ! ! ! " on bios, post screen or boot menu selection via F8.

 

[dustNbone]

Run SeaTools and do a check on the drive. If switching cables and ports doesn't fix it it's probably the drive.

Dustin