should I be concerned?

[fsh42na]

Today I turned on my pc and received a bluescreen message suggesting I run chkdsk due to a corrupt file. I ran it and it repaired/ replaced a file (sorry, didn't write down the file) and things seem fine now. I haven't had any "clicks of death" and anything weird going on till my BSOD today. Do you think my drive is getting ready to go belly up or do I need a possible OS reinstall (XP pro - soon to be Win7)?

Thanks

 

[Yakyb]

with any form of data you just need to play it safe.

backup anything important,

then its up to you personally i would be a little concerned but if everything is running genuinely okay i would keep backing up and forget about it

but whenever this has happened to me in the past i have always used it as an excuse to upgrade to a newer / quicker model

 

[MrWizard6600]

if the drive is SMART (i hate these kind of acronyms), you could use a program to access that logged data and see if the drives firmware has anything it wants to complain about.

Aside from that, an $80 program called spinright will find any bad/dieing sectors, and move the data off those sectors and on to new ones. If you run it monthly you can also tell by how much your losing per month just how bad the drives getting.

Anyways, always a good idea to backup your data, especially when external drives are so damn cheap and fast, and when Amazons S3 service charges pennis on the GB to store your data (and IIRC its mirrored across multiple servers --it'l survive the nuclear hollocost).

 

[Yakyb]

i disagree with the S3 service, whilst on one hand it gets your data off site, the actual ratio $/GB is not good at all you would be better buying a external HDD then updating it every month and keeping it in a drawer at work or at your parents / friends
with S3 storing 1000GB's worth of data would set you back $250 the first month then $150 every month after that (with a charge at the end to access any of it ) obviously scaling that down to maybe 20GB (family photos) you are down to roughly $5 a month and the cost is almost negligible but add that up over a year and you have the same as a 750GB external drive