[unCLEARblur]

i have an hp i7-920 processor, with 2x500gb hitachi hdd in a RAID O array. one day my computer froze and after twenty minutes of waiting for it to respond from black screen i rebooted it from the power button on the tower.

after the reboot i received a message from Intel Matrix Storage manager that an error occurred on a hard drive. in the menu i clicked on and view the system report and it showed both hard drives and says they both have errors.

my computer works fine but its a little slow for being a performance machine. i was able to do two back-ups onto an external drive before i started receiving another message from my vista backup program that the backup has failed. i would assume manually backing it up would be the only way.

all in all i need to know if i should replace both the hard drives now before my computer fully crashes. considering i bought this computer from hp i might just be able to send it back if still under warranty, but that also means i have no back-up disks for ANY hardware i bought from them (video card, sound card, photo editing, OS) im not sure what to do and just need some advice i assume. anything will help!!!

[joeten]

hi and welcome to TSG yes do make your back up asap once done go to the hdd makers support website and get their hdd diagnostic tools and run the tests you could also run chkdsk

[rainforest123]

I vote for diags from the PC manufacturer firstly. Sometimes the diags from the HDD manufacturer are not specific to the OEM's HDDs.

If the OEM has no HDD diags, I agree w/ joeten.

RF123