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Does BSOD mean Hard drive may be going bad?

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#1 ·
Is my 2 year old WD 320 SATA hard drive going bad?
I was using the computer this morning when it froze and then gave me a BSOD with "A problem was detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage" message with a stop error code: 0x000000F4.
When I tried to reboot, I got an error message saying that I need to select a boot device.
I went into the bios and selected my internal main hard drive and then rebooted with no problem.
Is this an indication that the drive may be starting to fail?
 
#3 ·
I went to Event Viewer and found these two events at the time of the crash. Could this further indicate that the drive is going bad?

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11
Date: 1/4/2011
Time: 9:30:55 AM
User: N/A
Computer: XXX-CCCCCXXX
Description:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\D.

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 1/4/2011
Time: 9:30:59 AM
User: N/A
Computer: XXX-CCCCCXXX
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during a paging operation.
 
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