Event Viewer Disk Error Event ID 52

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This is the error that I found in my event log last week. It appeared in the log when the PC was idle. The PC is running fine, and had I not looked in the log, I wouldn't have found this. I did a Scandisk (8kbs bad sector) on my 80Gig drive and I Degragged. I do have a year left on my extended warranty, but it's bugging me that the hard drive is humming along just fine. Does anyone know how reliable these warnings are? I backed up but this is not a good time for me to be replacing my hard drive. Any suggestions/experience with this error?


Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 52
Date: 4/23/2004
Time: 11:22:38 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DELL
Description:
The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 0e 00 03 00 01 00 5e 00 ......^.
0008: 00 00 00 00 34 00 04 80 ....4..€
0010: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 11 2d 00 ......-.
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 ...

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Download a disk check utility from the hard drive manufactures webpage.

If you not sure who manufactured the disk; Western Digital, Maxtor, have free disk check utilities that will work on all hard drive makes.