It's bit the dust already and quite frankly, I'm shocked. About a month ago, my computer was running maintenance tests but when it was halfway done with the hard drive portion, the test suddenly failed. I tried it again manually and the same thing happened.
I then downloaded a S.M.A.R.T. hard drive testing application and it happened to find problems.
So I thought no big deal until a few days ago that my laptop failed to shut down after downloading a portable program. I had to hold down the power button, and when it booted up, there were error notifications everywhere saying my files were corrupt and the drive had errors on it. I know some of you might blame it on me, but my laptop would not shut off when I turned it off and even after repairing the file system, it still had problems.
Oh, and on top of that, I got memory error reports too.
And finally today, after still discovering my Steam folder was corrupted, I tried reinstalling Civ 5, and steam showed up with the error message stating
Disc write error.
So I have my files and system stuff all backed up before hand, so I'm just formatting the damn thing and sending it to get repairs since it has a warranty on it. Fantastic.
