My hard drive recently shut down twice giving me giberish error messages

I ran the error check and defragmented it

but it still gave me the error again and shut down

Now I went to the western digital site support section and downloaded the datalifeguard program

when I ran it, it found bad sectors and fixed them filling it with zeros
thats what it said

does anyone have expertise with this?

I'm trying to figure out

how long till this drive dies ???

its a western digital 120 gig sata drive in case anyones wondering
(purchased 8-04)

Personally, I would back that drive up ASAP and ditch it. I've had my run ins with HD failures over the years, usually I've gotten warning signs such as yours. Last time it happened, I ignored it a little too long and it got to the point where I could copy about 1GB to somewhere else and then the system would crash. Not fun :/

OK...thanks for the info

I was reading that people are setting there computers on raid with 2 or more hard drives
have you tried this?

you think its easy to do?

I haven't done it myself (although I have been meaning too forever), but I'm pretty sure its easy enough these days. Most motherboards have RAID controllers built-in now, so I think all it takes is a few BIOS setting changes.