To all hardware experts

[Raekur]

I would listen to AC on this one, chances are the MBR section of the drive may have become corrupted and caused the bootloader to fail until chkdsk repaired it (which simply means that it was pointed back to the correct location on the disk). Get the new drive, move your data over, and return the old drive back to the manufacturer. There are several possible causes for this problem ranging from damage to the fle structure, damage to the heads or platters or problems with the controller board on the bottom of the drive.

Its not something to just ignore and pray it goes away because it wont, that much you can be certain of.

Oh, and Ghosting a corrupted drive, bad idea. Better to use the slave to master transfer as you have NO idea how long you will be able to access the drive. Stick with what works, move the data across so its built on the new drive properly.