Hard Drive corrupt

[Guest_imported]

Hi, I have a 6 GB Maxtor HD and Windows ME, the HD hasn't give me any problems in the past 2 years when I bought it. But now, sometimes when I shut down correctly the computer, the next day when I turned on it doesn't load Windows, so I boot with a diskette and when I type "dir" in "C", many of the directories are corrupted, especially Windows, and also in some cases, some of the dirs or files have unknown names like "--_í", like trash names. Also, the HD doesn't have bad sectors, and doesn't sound wired or do extrange souns. And this IS NOT a virus, because I have Mcafee Virusscan 5.0 and it is updated.

I don't know what to do, I think it is the HD that is bad and I will have to change it. But I am not sure.
Any help???

 

[edfair]

probable HD. Not recovering stuff off the drive correctly. Ed Fair
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[saenz]

i maxblasted a 120g hd with 2 partitons, and when i reboot w/winxp it goes for a while then it gives me an error of (missing operating system) oh!, it was part. using fat32 system file. any help?