Hard Drive Failing/Starting to fail

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I'm running SBS2003 Standard on an IBM Eserver. The server has a single 40 GB
boot drive with sbs2003 (Windows Server and Exchange) on it and another drive
100 GB for data which doesn't have much on it. I'm starting to see errors in
the system log that states that there maybe a bad block on the hdd. I believe
that it’s referring to the boot drive C. All the company's critical data is
on another local win2000 server and is being backed up with Backup exec 9.
The only thing that’s on the sbs box is mainly the user accounts and exchange
mailboxes.

The server runs slow when I hit the drive. i.e.: If I try to copy something
off the drive and sometimes it will time out. I also noticed If I run a
defrag analyze the drive is really fragmented. I didn't defrag it because I
was unsure if it would do any damage to my exchange files.

What’s the best way to fix my drive?

Can I?

- Move the exchange data to another drive? Reconfigure another hdd with
sbs2003 with all the same settings?

- Some how make a ghost copy of the boot drive to another drive

- Stick another drive in and make a mirror? Then replace the bad drive.

- Just run defrag/scandisk and fix the drive?

- ?????

The server is up and running now. Users don’t seem to be affected (yet)
except the one user whose pst archive was on that hard drive and I think got
corrupted.

Any ideas would be great.

Thanks,
Jamie

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