80gb Hard Drive Possibly Dead

I Got This 80gb Hard Drive, It's A Westel Digital. I Got It Like 1 Year Ago. Now The Bios Detects The Hard-drive And Sometimes It Works To Intall Windows, But Once I Give It A Month It Dies On Me And Tells Me That My Hard Drive Is Currupted Although The My Computer Bios Still Detects The Hard-drive. Now I Was Wondering Is This Problem Fixable And How Do I Do That, And If Not It Is Going To The Trash....

 

can you hook the h/d up to another computer and set it as slave and see if it can be viewed then?

 

You should have a 3 year warranty on that drive. I just had a WD 80gig die as well. I got an RMA for it & it's outta here on Monday. You can check to see if your drive is still under warranty here. There are also some tests you can run to make sure it is indeed the drive failing.

 

I have a 120GB WD, it's working fine...for now :|

 

thanks guys for the help, now one of you said i could get another one...Do I need like a warranty paper or something....