How to fix data error reading hard drive

[ching suarez]

Hello,
I've been getting thee messages and my computer is not acting right; "data error reading drive C", Seek error - sector not found; write/read format error; drive sector not found; hard drive controller failure; which is the best way to fix all of these messages that appear intermittently even if my computer is up

 

[abekl]

What type of hard drive do you have, IDE or SATA?

Basically, your hard drive and/or controller is failing. Back up the documents, pictures, and music you want to keep as you hard drive is not long for this world.