Actually, that would be an exaggeration. Here's the problem. My PC is behaving very erratically. It just keeps hanging (temporarily), and then resumes as if it just recieved a dose af adrenaline. Sonetimes, non-resopnsive programs donot even end when I select the 'end process' or 'end process tree' option in task manager. Eventually, I have to end explorer everytime, and then when I try to start it again, even task manager hangs! The mouse is operational all the time. I had taken my harddisk to my friends place yestarday, and the same problem was happening on his comp after my harddisk was connected to his PC! Same non responsive, non ending, taskmngr.exe hanging... Also I distinctly remember a long time ago, when I was copying or moving files from one partition to the other on the same HDD, I got an error saying somathing like 'cannot read from source file or disk'. Usually I don't ignore such errors, but that time I did, probably because I knew that it was my mistake, i.e. something which I did. I have repartitioned my entire harddisk, so there is no question of fragmentation. I fear that my harddisk is 'dying', althouugh I don't know for sure. Is there any sure way to find out, probably a surface scan from a 3rd party scandisk-like program?
It is definately dying, i've seen those symptoms hundreds of times before. As for software, Spinrite will be able to give you a proper, final diagnosis, but it'll cost you a bit.
