I've read here before about scandisk errors being a possible early sign of a failing hard drive. Is this just if it finds bad clusters? Or is it the errors? I just did a standard scandisk, and it found errors and fixed them all. I copied it and am pasting the report here: Log file generated at 17:36 on 6/13/2002. ScanDisk used the following options: Standard test Automatically fix errors Drive HP_PAVILION (C:) contained the following errors: The drive's file allocation tables (FATs) did not match. Resolution: Repair the error Results: Error was corrected as specified above. The drive's file allocation tables (FATs) did not match. Resolution: Repair the error Results: Error was corrected as specified above. ScanDisk found 32768 bytes of data in 1 lost file fragment(s). Resolution: Discard lost file fragment(s) Results: Error was corrected as specified above. ScanDisk found errors on this drive and fixed them all. ------------------- Do I have a possible problem? Thanks, guys.

Those are just software errors, probably nothing at all wrong with the drive. They are usually caused when the computer is shut down improperly by turning it off without shutting down Windows, power failures, etc.

Don't think so . Scandisk has done it's job & fixed the problems probably created by human error .

I agree with the above. However running scandisk 'thorough' will make a good check of your hard drive, if you're so inclined. It does take a LONG time though (hours).

Hello It's a very usual scandisk log.No reason to worry.If you want to see what's your HDD condition,you need to go to Start>Shut Down> Restart in MS-DOS Mode and type at the promt: C:\WINDOWS>scandisk c: In a few seconds scandisk will perform a routine test and then will give you an option to perform a surface scan also telling you how long it probably takes (depending on your C size).Select YES and see if you have some bad(physically bad)clusters.You can stop the process at any time. regards Stefan