Possible HDD problem?

[Orcvader]

So I left my laptop last night to download something. I woke up this morning to see the download has stopped with the message "Error: IO disk error". I resumed the download and it finished the download no problems after that. I then checked the event logs in Windows and saw this:

- System 

  - Provider 

   [ Name]  atapi 
 
  - EventID 11 

   [ Qualifiers]  49156 
 
   Level 2 
 
   Task 0 
 
   Keywords 0x80000000000000 
 
  - TimeCreated 

   [ SystemTime]  2011-02-05T02:48:42.891214600Z 
 
   EventRecordID 85159 
 
   Channel System 
 
   Computer RISER-Portable 
 
   Security 
 

- EventData 

   \Device\Ide\IdePort0 
   0000100001000000000000000B0004C002000000850100C00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004100000 


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Binary data:


In Words

0000: 00100000 00000001 00000000 C004000B 
0008: 00000002 C0000185 00000000 00000000 
0010: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 
0018: 00000000 00001004   


In Bytes

0000: 00 00 10 00 01 00 00 00   ........
0008: 00 00 00 00 0B 00 04 C0   .......À
0010: 02 00 00 00 85 01 00 C0   ....…..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 04 10 00 00   ........

Looking back at the logs the problem occurred 115 times since 1st of Feb. Is this a HDD problem? The HDD is a Toshiba MK3265GSX.

 

[Orcvader]

Well I have all my stuff backed up on my desktop, so that's no problem.

None of the Toshiba HDD diagnostic tools want to run on my HDD since it's not Fujitsu branded as my laptop is Acer. I tried checking on the Acer site too to see if there was anything but there's nothing.

I might just replace the HDD, but I have no idea how to reinstall everything with the Acer eRecovery Management. Tried reading their FAQ but that just confused me . Does anyone know if the "Create Factory Default Disc" creates a bootable part to reinstall Windows and all the Acer applications that came with it? Or should I just mirror the drive to a new one? I have no idea how to do this...

 

[Orcvader]

Yeah I made the factory disks right after I got my laptop, due to past experiences I never trusted Toshiba drives . And yeah, tried that tool, didn't work.

Was planning on installing HDTune and see what it says. Ordered the Seagate 320gb 7200rpm drive anyway since I find this drive too slow on boot compared to my desktop .