Is This A Bad Hard Drive?

[5150]

I just got an error message stating that there was a problem in explorer.exe so I took a look at my Event Viewer and came across 7 errors in the last 2 days. Here is what ev is telling me :

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0.

0000: 03 00 22 00 01 00 72 00 .."...r.
0008: 00 00 00 00 0b 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 ee 9f 90 0a 00 00 00 .î??....
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 ....(...
0038: 02 8f 00 00 03 08 04 00 .?......
0040: 28 00 05 48 4f f7 00 00 (..HO÷..
0048: 40 00 @.

Is this a bad cable, motherboard, or hard drive? Down a little ways I get more of these but this time it states :

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk4\DR7.

and

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR6.

Any ideas?

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[bcastner]

This is a problem with the hard disk drive, and often you will not have much more time to back the data off before losing the drive.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;244780&Product=win2000

I would:

. immediately back off the data from the disk
. follow with a chkdsk /r in Recovery Console
. if no joy, or the error repeats soon after, you can drive the free diagnostic software that can be found on the website of the hard disk manufacturer. There is often a non-destructive repair procedure

In my personal experience this means the drive is likely to fail completely soon.