Hi

I checked the logs and I found this.....
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--------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------

WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStat...: 1Time(s)
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }...: 1Time(s)
hdb: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStat...: 1Time(s)
hdb: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }...: 1Time(s)
hdd: packet command error: error=0x34...: 1Time(s)
hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { D...: 1Time(s)

---------------------- Kernel End -------------------------

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I have two hard-drives as you see...The hdb is also ext3 formatted.And I also noticed that I can,t do "intense" jobs like burning cd's and watching Video clips...Now is this because there might be a Hard-Drive Failure or what?

I use Gnome most of the time and it'll sometime freeze ...without having done something..
So a day it'll freeze 3 times and I have to restart.

Please Help!
Thnx

Well to tell you bad news, I'd say its a bad hard drive. My roomate had a drive go out on him and to be sure, I tried mounting it in one of my Linux boxes and I recieved some of the same seek type errors. The hard drive was complete crap and was replaced.

Probably a bad drive - but I had errors like that with my drive and ext3 - filesystem got hosed twice.
After I switched to reiserfs and JFS I didn't have anymore trouble at all with the same drive.
There is a test suite called cerberos at http://sourceforge.net/projects/va-ctcs
Just run that for about 24 hrs. on your drive and see if it falls apart.Pls. check out the readme and doc's - that suite is designed to destroy bad hardware.

Thnx for the help....Also forget to mention that when I boot onto my Windows 98 partition it also freezes..

I will install another hard-drive and see what happens...And I have a bunch of files on these hdd's.

thnx very much..

you drive will die SOON (or maybe it's the chipset, whatever, something is bad and it's hardware based.)
BACK UP YOUR DATA!!! NOW!!!

The drive went dead after 3 days and I lost the data which was on it..(15 mp3s to be exact)...

But i think the drive is still fine because I can see it on my Bios ...I just need to installl win98 and wipe it...so I have vfat file system.
Thats the only way todo it coz if you try to do it from your linux box...it'll get screwed.

How can you think that the drive still fine if it is dead?

Don't mess with broken HD, send it back to manufacturer (it is proably under warranty) and get a new one.