Hard disk on it's way out?
 

XP Pro, Samsung 120gb SATA formatted NTFS bought Jan 2004.

I had a failed backup Sunday night, so this morning I ran a defrag & checkdisk which gave several errors.

"File record segment x is unreadable" (where x=21888 up to 21891)

Also theere were 2 errors in the index location 21878 which were deleted.

Is the disk on it's way out?

Edit: Apart from the backup failure, the pc appears to work fine.

Yep sounds like u have a few badblocks there. A format is the only way to be sure. Of course if it cant format it, you'll be left with an unuseable disc.

Time for a new disc me thinks.

try going to the samsung website im sure they have software so you can scan and check your hd

Nothing that I can find, although there is a customer services number which I'll try.