Is my Hard disk dying.....

Hi
I have a 4 year old computer lying around... Sometime when i start it, it takes long time to detect hard disk, "Detecting Primary Master..." and then it gives the usual disk error " please inssert the disk bla bla bla"

I am guessing the hard disk is dying but how sure can i be?. Is it really dying.

I ran HDDLifePro and it says the Health is OK! and Performance is Excellent!.

 

Go to BIOS and set the first boot device as a HDD n see if this appears again.. hah:

 

What i noticed was the CD ROM also did not detect sometime.

& when it detected i opned the tray but i couldnt close it without pushing it.

I also found a virus called preboot.A, which i disinfected by the help of F-Prot Antivirus.

 

Here v go, now u know that your computer is infected by virus so Run a complete scan of all Adware, Registry, Antivirus scan in the Safe mode.... TO kick them off ur computer

 

Try a number of things:

• Put the hard drive on the second IDE channel as Master.
• Change the IDE cable
• Try the hard drive in another computer

What are the results?

 

i think mega suggestion is the winner, but having viruses is not a good thing, obviously, so as karan suggested, remove all spyware & viruses[ot]scan in safe mode[/ot]

Edit: it may work if you just disconnect & reconnect the IDE cable