hard drive failing?

I have a 320GB hard drive that's about a year old, It has windows and a few movies on it. When it boots it gets a FAIL_TO_MOUNT_BOOT_VOLUME error. I reset it a few times and boots fine. It isn't making any weird noises or anything but I'm worried it might fail soon

Is it a sign of a failing hard drive (it's a cheap seagate one) or is it a software thing?

fsck or chkdsk, noob

Lissen up son 'cuz imma only say this one time

THAR ARE TWO KINDA HARD DRIVES

-- ONES THATS GONNA FAIL
AND

-- ONES THAT DONE GONE AND FAILED

the real question is:

did you back up your data?

>>2
i ran chkfail first thing. found shit all

>>3
good advice tbh

the hhd has windows and movies. i can't back up 120 gigs of movies on my 128MB flash stick, so I left my computer in my dads tin shed for about 2 weeks. when i took it out it was fine with no booting problems

dunno if it was the moisture or the dust but it made the hard drive boot fine. As a cs major I'm baffled.

I'm getting a laptop in a few months so betting it's the connectors or an obscure bios setting. I'll get a external with 500 gigs and put my shit onto that

Does it have sufficient air flow? I had a Seagate for extra storage that would refuse to work sometimes, and it was a cointoss. Whoever installed the thing didn't mount it properly in the chassis and it was overheating, shutting itself off to save itself.