hi guys. BIG thank you.
so i have one video card and it was an upgrade from the original that came with the computer and put in while under applecare warranty (nvidia geforce 8800gt). that said i just put in a new hard drive for my OS drive (bay 1) that was failing and i /also/ just sent in a G-TEch external drive that seems to have been giving me boot problems for one reason or another (also a very easy exchange). now i am getting a Carbon Copy Cloner error on my /external/ backup of the data drive which is all starting to make me rather paranoid.
ANYWAY, back to the topic at hand. it seems as if the OS drive (bay 1) is failing again i think?
i have run a Tech Tools Surface Scan of all my drives and it appear the OS drive (bay 1) is coming up with a failure indicating 31 bad sectors.
can anyone recommend whether i should just replace (or reformat??) the OS drive? or maybe buy Disk Warrior?
also, can anyone please advise as to whether i should only reset PRAM and SMC and fsck(not sure what this is exactly) when i have a problem or if i should do this periodically?
i am starting to think i need to run this TechTools Surface Scan more often and i would like to stay on top of things as the