Hard drive failure?

[Xinos]

Over the last two days I have been getting random bluescreens (3 or 4 in total) when acessing stuff on my D drive. The bluescreen shows a Windows Stop message; stopping windows to prevent eventuall hardware damage.

I've noticed it's D, but I supose C could be part of the problem too since they are two partitions on the same disk. But when using winamp I have gotten yellow alert balloon popups from the taskbar saying that the mp3 file has not been saved by Windows, or something in that direction. I did a "scan disk" check on all my drives last night which took hours, but no problems where found.

So does anyone have any experiences with this?

[Zero72]

From someone whose hard drive has sputtered and died completely on him before, that definitely sounds like an ailing one to me. Start making backups.

[Xinos]

Damn. I left my computer on during the night. When I wake up and turn on the monitor I am greeted with the bluescreen.

*STOP: 0x0000009C (0x00000004, 0x80545FF0, 0xB2000000, 0x00070F0F) (http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=0x0000009C+(0x00000004,+0x80545FF0,+0xB2000000,+ 0x00070F0F&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)
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When I restart my computer I get a message saying GRUB failed, and "Error 17". I think this is some old Linux boot thing that's still there since when I tried to install Debian.

As of right now, I'm running a live Ubunthu cd.

Edit: I unplugged all hard drives except my windows one and the PC started up fine. Now I just got to plug them back in one at the time to see which one is causing the ruckuss.

Edit: Okay, the immidiate problem of my computer not starting was that the hard drive boot priority was mixed up. So now all disks are in and my pc is running. *phew*. Now I gotta figure out what the hell is causing the bluescreen T_T;

[Xinos]

The problem re-occured yesterday so my previous sollution was not a sollution at all. Having changed SATA port was compleatly irrelevant.

I figured out that the crash was because my harddrive would overheat.

So I plugged in the fan that was already mounted infront of them. Heh, guess it was there for a reason.

[worMatty]

Congratulations.