Hardware Issues / Backing up data

[MattD]

I can boot both Ubuntu and Windows. Ubuntu shows no noticable problems while Windows hangs at logon followed by popping up messages about not being able to write data. When I look in the Event Viewer on Windows it is flooded with messages saying that the drive has a bad block. I ran CHKDSK /P and that told me that the disk had one or more uncorrectable errors.

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

How important is the data contained? If it's absolutely critical stuff, paradoxically enough, don't touch it, don't even boot with that drive. Send it out for (expensive) data recovery.

The most important thing on there would be the code for my team's 2006 robot. I already have backed that up to various locations, however I'm not sure if those backups contain the most recent versions. Luckily I've developed the habit of saving most of my work onto a shared drive on my desktop at home.