Got a bad disk dialogue box

i have a password protected side of my laptop where i do the majority of my work. i have been getting these bad disk dialogue boxes that pop up. i had been ignoring them for a while and finally clicked on the "start backup process". the reason that i hadn't before is because i have a seagate 1t external hard drive and when i have tried to backup without it would never work. after clicking to start the backup process the computer restarted and i have not been able to enter the password protected side of my laptop. i can access the guest side. i am not sure what to do to resolve this...can anyone help?
i have a satellite a305-s6898 with vista...please let me know if you need any further info to help

when i enter my password it says "the user profile service service failed the logon user profile cannot be loaded"
Thank you. Now we're getting somewhere. See the following Microsoft article.
   You receive a "The User Profile Service failed the logon” error message
You probably need to log into the hidden Administrator account to follow those instructions.
   Enable or Disable Built-in Administrator Account in Windows Vista
If you can't enable it from the Guest account or in Safe Mode, then you may need to do so from the Recovery Environment (WinRE).
   How to Enable the Built-in Administrator Account from WinRE
If you are not sufficiently technically proficient, you may want to seek help from somebody who is. It would be easy to mess things up even more.
it said something like "the system encountered a bad hard disk" and it needed to be addressed. it prompted me to the backup process..
It certainly appears to me that your hard drive is failing. That may very well be the reason for this trouble.
Do you have important files that have not yet been copied to external media? Files that you cannot afford to lose?
-Jerry

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