Possible hard drive failure, need help.

[blade52x]

When Vista loads, it gives me a message telling me one of my hard drives need to be checked for consistency. If I let it run, it either freezes, or aborts with some kind of unknown error at some point (happens at different points in the process, randomly). When I finish booting into Vista, the hard drive is there, but it needs to be formatted before it can be used.

If I keep letting chkdsk run is there a chance it may be able to repair whatever the issue is? It seems to get progressively further, but how far away from completing chkdsk it is, I have no idea.

Edit: Actually, I'm going download WD Lifeguard Tools, and see if I can scan the drive first, and see what it tell me. Will update when done.

 

[Impulse]

Sure sounds like it's dying, I'd try to salvage any data that you need from it before letting chkdsk or anything else try and repair errors, altho it sounds like there's nothing on it anymore (or it's inaccessible).