HDD prob

[fannedman]

I have a 40 gb HDD which has 4 partitions , with xp installed in C.
Recently some files got corrupted(i mean 2 or 3 files)
After running chkdsk, a problem was reported.. some volume...bitmap....
I ran it with /F the next time and after the system rebooted,there were no problems when i ran chkdsk. But after some 2 or 3 reboots, the same problem crops up.
I also completely formatted the partition( not quick format),and there were no problems initially,but later the same thing happened.
This time no corrupt files,but the chkdsk reports error
Here's the report after the chkdsk

C:\>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.

WARNING!  F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

  10241405 KB total disk space.
   4111024 KB in 21570 files.
      5292 KB in 1240 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
     76881 KB in use by the system.
     53264 KB occupied by the log file.
   6048208 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
   2560351 total allocation units on disk.
   1512052 allocation units available on disk.

Is my hdd on the brink?
There are no problems on other partitions
Will this problem affect the other partitions?I have some important data in the other partitions

 

[shantanu]

try using this utility to see your SMART DATA

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[ravi_9793]

I think there is sm problem in ur hard disk.

 

[piyush gupta]

better is u take back up of ur hard disk and call local dealer for HDD check

how old is ur HDD