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First of all, if this is in the wrong thread, please ask a mod to move it somewhere more appropriate. Thank you. 
Well i think the title says it all. My external hard drive is failing (or so i think) i mean now its like....oh god, i don't know what to say! I mean its hard to explain the situation...... I have an 80GB HD which has 2 separate drives (which means 40GB per drive, still understand?) Well the weird thing is that one of my drives is starting to give me problem! When i try to open a file or even transfer a file from that particular drive, it takes ages for it to load! I even tried to scan for a virus but the virus stopped scanning at 10% (at one of my rFactor files) But i hope i can resolve this first. I tried to burn my files from that drive also give me a headache! Like it always doesn't want to load up and sometimes it would reject the file altogether.
This problem started a few months ago when i was converting videos and stuff. Somehow i didn't realize that one of the converted files was corrupted. I tried to delete it, but it won't! (see photos below) Then i check the properties and saw that it was an empty file, so like i thought it was just fine (things were still okay back then) then i started to install games onto that particular drive and also put some videos there as well. All was fine back then, but over the months the driver seems to get slower and also makes my pc crash more often.
I then uninstall the games, but still the problem persist! Am i really abusing my HD? If i was, how come only one drive looks like failing? By the way, i use that HD almost everyday for 12 hours straight? Is that a bad thing? If this is possible, can i reformat just one of my drivers? Any help and suggestion are appreciated. I'm really desperate here......I don't really have much in my HD, just some songs, videos, and photos. I don't really have anything important but those things are really precious to me (cause like it took me days to download that stuff!!!!)
Well here is that file i was mentioning:


(sorry if i sound paranoid, crazy or just plain dumb....)
Well i think the title says it all. My external hard drive is failing (or so i think) i mean now its like....oh god, i don't know what to say! I mean its hard to explain the situation...... I have an 80GB HD which has 2 separate drives (which means 40GB per drive, still understand?) Well the weird thing is that one of my drives is starting to give me problem! When i try to open a file or even transfer a file from that particular drive, it takes ages for it to load! I even tried to scan for a virus but the virus stopped scanning at 10% (at one of my rFactor files) But i hope i can resolve this first. I tried to burn my files from that drive also give me a headache! Like it always doesn't want to load up and sometimes it would reject the file altogether.
This problem started a few months ago when i was converting videos and stuff. Somehow i didn't realize that one of the converted files was corrupted. I tried to delete it, but it won't! (see photos below) Then i check the properties and saw that it was an empty file, so like i thought it was just fine (things were still okay back then) then i started to install games onto that particular drive and also put some videos there as well. All was fine back then, but over the months the driver seems to get slower and also makes my pc crash more often.
Well here is that file i was mentioning:


(sorry if i sound paranoid, crazy or just plain dumb....)