Disk Error On Error Checking

I think their is a bit of confusion here so let me explain to the full.

Had pc for 6 months, i do a boot up full disk scan every few weeks where it does the 5 part scan right. It frooze at 99% on part 5. I took it to the shop and they had to re-format the pc and i lost everything. I have managed to get everyhting back. And i went to do my every few weeks boot up scan. It got ot the end of part 3 and says "Windows cannot read Security 'something or other' end of scan."
So i thought i will try a normal full scan where u right click on yourhard drive and it does it deep 5 phases scan not the short 3 scan. No matter which one i select it gives me the error message
"Windows was unable to complete the disk check"
My pc cannot seem to do the full scans like it could before it went to the shop.

Does anyone what to do to fix this should i ring up a tecnical support line i would rather not since it costs so much.

Ok i got a update, i downloaded the offical maxtor powermax drive tester and says i have a fault and i need ot ring them up about it. Great just great i am sick of all the crap my pc gets. Oh well thanks for help people, i like this froum its always good for help.

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Originally posted by angel_of_death57@12 April 2004 - 14:44
Ok i got a update, i downloaded the offical maxtor powermax drive tester and says i have a fault and i need ot ring them up about it. Great just great i am sick of all the crap my pc gets. Oh well thanks for help people, i like this froum its always good for help.

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i wonder if someone tried to do a system restore on the drive and then killed the power to the comp. that seems to wreck a drive.

Erm yeah that happened is that a bad thing.

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Originally posted by angel_of_death57@12 April 2004 - 15:28
Erm yeah that happened is that a bad thing.

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http://www.mcbriens.net/liam/img/smilies/yes.gifoh yea, it kills the SMART on the drive

youll get " SMART status failed" or something like that. the drive will slowly get worse. try to get your data off of it ASAP, cuz the thing will get totally inoperable. but a nice thing is.....................warranty covers it ;)
just dont tell them what you did..............just say "it quit working, i dont know why"

Thats what i am going to do, since i got it from PC world UK i am going back hteirthis thursday and saying 6 weeks ago i brought it in to get it fixed after a disk read error and i needed the update disk. Then the other ay i did a disk error checker and it couldnt complete so i contacted Maxtor and they said download PowerMax 3 and put it onto a Floppy disc so i did that and it sais it could not complete andi need to contact maxtor. So i checked on the site and it says i need a replacement becuase of a corrupt disk.

Well looks like i need a replacement.