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Originally Posted by rayxi
Diogenes: The unrecoverable errors are likely due to damaged sectors occuring where critical OS data lives. Plain bad luck. Mount the old drive on another computer and try to copy as much personal files as possible. Then reformat to mark the bad sectors and perhaps the drive is still usable, though having failed once you might be better off with a new one anyway. Good luck!
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That's my tho'ts - I've got an empty HD USB enclosure in the closet. I'll just mount the old HD in it after I reinstall the OS in a new drive. Then copy the old data over. Good thing is that there's not much data on the primary, just app's.
I originally blamed windows because of the Avast update. I'm not real surprised by the HD failure as it's a four year old Seagate Barracuda and an identical one in my wife's desktop died 'bout 6 months ago. Funny thing is, the secondary drive in the computer is the old primary from when I upgraded to XP. It's a six year old WD that just keeps on going.
Note to self - time to burn some backup DVDs after the OS reinstall...