Is my hard drive dieing?

[jimmiekain]

i have two hard drives and over the past couple of months i noticed that sometimes when i would connect devices to my pc (external usb hard drive, camera, phone... all usb) it would freeze up and say "not responding" then i would click my mouse a bunch of times then a block comes up and i click restart windows explorer. NOW... every single time i try to move files from my camera, external drive or phone it freezes up and says not responding and i cant do anything but click restart windows explorer. BUT... when i click a movie or music file on my external drive it plays fine...

I was wondering, does this mean one or possibly both of my internal hard drives is dieing? here is my system info any help would be greatly appreciated.

windows 7 ultimate 64bit
amd phenom x4 9950 overclocked to 2.79ghz
ati Sapphire 4870 1gb vapor x
8gb patriot ram
zalman cooler
1 wd hdd
1 toshiba hdd
msi mobo

 

[jitpublisher]

Sounds more like a software/driver issue to me.

 

[jimmiekain]

Sounds more like a software/driver issue to me.

anyway to check? i have installed all of the updates from windows update.

 

[jimmiekain]

also, i forgot to add that my computer will not shut down or restart it just says shutting windows down forever and never shuts down. i have to push the button to turn it off. but, it will go to sleep and wake up fine.