Help! Critical problems!

[Guest]

My computer lagged these days last for about 3 days. It also happened at the
same period last month.

When I performed CHKDSK, some messages showeed that
"The disk does not have enought space to replace bad clusters detected in
file 150774 of name \PROGRA~1\...[path]...bmp."
"Correcting errors in the Master File Table(MFT) mirror."

Seagate's diagnostic software showed
"File Structure Test Result
Partition 1 (NTFS 60GB MainHD) Results: Failed with critical errors
The following error were found while scanning the volume
- Basic structure corruption"

What do the above mean?
How can I solve them?
Any method I can "copy" all my XP to a new hard disk?

Now, the lagging problem does not happen. Howerver I found that the red
light indicates my hard disk is flashing at the time and I heard that my
hard disk is turning even while I have nothing to do on my computer. Why?

Thanks for answering.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

My computer lagged these days last for about 3 days. It also happened at the
same period last month.

When I performed CHKDSK, some messages showeed that
"The disk does not have enought space to replace bad clusters detected in
file 150774 of name \PROGRA~1\...[path]...bmp."
"Correcting errors in the Master File Table(MFT) mirror."

Seagate's diagnostic software showed
"File Structure Test Result
Partition 1 (NTFS 60GB MainHD) Results: Failed with critical errors
The following error were found while scanning the volume
- Basic structure corruption"

What do the above mean?
How can I solve them?
Any method I can "copy" all my XP to a new hard disk?

Now, the lagging problem does not happen. Howerver I found that the red
light indicates my hard disk is flashing at the time and I heard that my
hard disk is turning even while I have nothing to do on my computer. Why?

Thanks for answering.

It sounds like your disk is on the way out. I would clone
it immediately, before it gives up the ghost. Since it has
bad clusters, you can probably not use commercial cloning
programs such as Ghost or Acronis. I suggest this:
- Stop using the PC ***now***.
- Buy another hard disk.
- Connect it as a slave disk.
- Partition and format it it under WinXP.
- Mark the primary partition active.
- Clone it.

Here are two cloning methods that will work if the damage
is limited:
a) Connect the damaged and the new disk as secondary
disks to some other WinXP PC, then run the command below
from a Command Prompt.
b) Connect both disks to your current PC, boot the machine
with a Bart PE boot CD, then run the command below from
a Command Prompt.

xcopy S:\ T:\ /s /e /c /o /d /h /r /k /y 1>T:\copy.log 2>&1

Replace S: and T: with the correct drive letters for your
source and target partitions.

When finished, use notepad.exe to examine T:\copy.log to
see what errors (if any) occurred.

Important: After cloning the damaged disk, make sure to
boot the machine with the new disk as the primary master
and the damaged disk disconnected. If you leave it
connected then you will get some nasty surprises.

 

[Poprivet]

My computer lagged these days last for about 3 days. It also happened
at the same period last month.

When I performed CHKDSK, some messages showeed that
"The disk does not have enought space to replace bad clusters
detected in file 150774 of name \PROGRA~1\...[path]...bmp."
"Correcting errors in the Master File Table(MFT) mirror."

Seagate's diagnostic software showed
"File Structure Test Result
Partition 1 (NTFS 60GB MainHD) Results: Failed with critical errors
The following error were found while scanning the volume
- Basic structure corruption"

What do the above mean?
How can I solve them?
Any method I can "copy" all my XP to a new hard disk?

Now, the lagging problem does not happen. Howerver I found that the
red light indicates my hard disk is flashing at the time and I heard
that my hard disk is turning even while I have nothing to do on my
computer. Why?
Thanks for answering.

I respectfully submit that your hard drive is about to fail; completely and
irretrievably. Probably in the extremely near future.

Pegasus' advice is straight on: If you haven't already follow his advice
immediately or all data will shortly most likely become lost for good.
There appears already to be substantial damage but it might not yet be in
the used areas of the drive unless it is full.