Hard Drive Errors!!! Bad or Faulty HDD?

[mike4realz]

i have a western digital raptor HDD 150GB. once in a while or every other days, windows does a consistency test (never ever seen this on my old system) on my HDD and finds corrupt files and automatically fixes. here is the result:

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Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is System.


One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
The multi-sector header signature in file 0x3173 is incorrect.
46 41 4c 45 30 00 03 00 df c7 23 50 00 00 00 00 FALE0.....#P....
02 00 02 00 38 00 01 00 88 03 00 00 00 04 00 00 ....8...........
Deleting corrupt file record segment 12659.
Index entry toolkit.manifest of index $I30 in file 0x305a points to unused file 0x3173.
Deleting index entry toolkit.manifest in index $I30 of file 12378.
Index entry TOOLKI~1.MAN of index $I30 in file 0x305a points to unused file 0x3173.
Deleting index entry TOOLKI~1.MAN in index $I30 of file 12378.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 7 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 7 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 7 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

146512768 KB total disk space.
39503916 KB in 41653 files.
12876 KB in 5157 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
123964 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
106872012 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
36628192 total allocation units on disk.
26718003 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
70 ce 00 00 e4 b6 00 00 ca f9 00 00 00 00 00 00 p...............
8c 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 9a 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
32 ab d8 03 00 00 00 00 f8 6c 1e 0e 00 00 00 00 2........l......
f2 8c bd 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 a6 02 cb 1d 00 00 00 00 ................
40 b4 0d 8f 00 00 00 00 88 36 07 00 b5 a2 00 00 @........6......
00 00 00 00 00 b0 20 6b 09 00 00 00 25 14 00 00 ...... k....%...

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.
Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is System.


One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
The multi-sector header signature in file 0x4a47 is incorrect.
46 41 4c 45 30 00 03 00 93 09 1d 19 00 00 00 00 FALE0...........
05 00 01 00 38 00 01 00 80 03 00 00 00 04 00 00 ....8...........
Deleting corrupt file record segment 19015.
The multi-sector header signature in file 0x5e2f is incorrect.
46 41 4c 45 30 00 03 00 bc 32 14 32 00 00 00 00 FALE0....2.2....
01 00 01 00 38 00 01 00 58 01 00 00 00 04 00 00 ....8...X.......
Deleting corrupt file record segment 24111.
Index entry updatebr.inf of index $I30 in file 0x4a56 points to unused file 0x4a47.
Deleting index entry updatebr.inf in index $I30 of file 19030.
Index entry License.rtf of index $I30 in file 0x5e2a points to unused file 0x5e2f.
Deleting index entry License.rtf in index $I30 of file 24106.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 33 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 33 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 33 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

146512768 KB total disk space.
40010088 KB in 42971 files.
13612 KB in 5316 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
123972 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
106365096 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
36628192 total allocation units on disk.
26591274 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
70 ce 00 00 a9 bc 00 00 ae 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 p...............
b4 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 be 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
8c 0d db 03 00 00 00 00 60 23 59 0f 00 00 00 00 ........`#Y.....
d8 75 07 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .u..............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4a c3 d2 1f 00 00 00 00 ........J.......
80 50 0e 8f 00 00 00 00 88 36 07 00 db a7 00 00 .P.......6......
00 00 00 00 00 a0 05 8a 09 00 00 00 c4 14 00 00 ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.
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i scheduled a check disk and said that the hard drive is clean but once in a while windows still do a consistency test and reports that there are errors. i ran my virus/spam scanner and found nothing. my hard drive is only 2 months old and no weird noises when it loads.

also, firefox crashes a lot. supreme commander, cs: source, quake 4, quake wars crashes after long play (bout 30 - 45 minutes) and my system isn't overclocked

[brinks]

Test your ram to see if there are any errors on it.

I recently had a similar problem, my hard drive had inconsistency too, one day it got so bad my computer wouldn't even boot into windows properly. I thought my hard drive was to blame. But after trying to fix the problem I found out that one of my stick of ram went bad.

After installing a new pair of ram, all the problems went away...no more problems with the hard drive too.

[mike4realz]

Originally Posted by brinks

Test your ram to see if there are any errors on it.

I recently had a similar problem, my hard drive had inconsistency too, one day it got so bad my computer wouldn't even boot into windows properly. I thought my hard drive was to blame. But after trying to fix the problem I found out that one of my stick of ram went bad.

After installing a new pair of ram, all the problems went away...no more problems with the hard drive too.

what tool did u use to test your ram?

[brinks]

I used Memtest86+
Link: Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool