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Originally Posted by Dopin_Nuts I have two questions: How do you know if your hard drive is corrupted? and How can you tell what is corrupting your hard drive?

Try running chkdsk to see if you have any bad sectors. Hopefully this utlilty can fix them as well if any are found.

 

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Originally Posted by Dopin_Nuts Bump...I ran chkdsk yesterday and I had a 5 minute boot up today which is not right. So how do I know if my hard drive is just bad, or if my motherboard is corrupting my hard drive, or my RAM is corrupting my hard drive, or if there is just a bad slot on my motherboard, or my PCI bus is/was too high?

Only way to tell what the problem is is to test with different components really. If you've got another HDD, try that first as it seems to most likely cause.