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I second the SAS recommendation. Sometimes these messages are due to malware and not actual impending hard drive failure. I would run the chkdsk with /f switch + do an SAS scan, to see what can be ruled out.

Here’s an unrelated problem and the solution that exists nowhere else on the web. I was once told I didn’t need a page file ( virtual memory ) due to newer machines having enough memory. It’s wrong, you need a page file.

I finally got everything working again after getting rid of it, it was a mistake. All I could get was a windows setting of 256 MB for virtual memory. After several workarounds I gave up. No amount of searching or tweaking would get it back. It did effect many programs.

I did see where you should move the page file to it’s own partition and drive so I decided to try that just to get better performance and not to solve the problem. Had an old 20 GB Win98 drive that I installed as a slave ( was a noisy SOB after sitting around unused for 4 years ). Went to check the settings on my C drive just to move them to the new E drive and for some reason I was able to set the C drive page file to whatever I wanted. Problem solved by doing something nobody else identified.