Hard Disk Fault

My Compaq Presario CQ57 has been crashing a lot lately so I did a system diagnostics test. After the Quick test I got a 'Hard Disk 1 Fault' error. Could someone please explain this to me and help me with a solution to it?

Hello Candi94, 
Welcome at the HP forums, Sorry for my late reaction!
Download this program:
http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.jp/crystaldiskinfo/61888/CrystalDiskInfo6_2_2.zip Exctract it and run "Diskinfo.exe"
Do you have any warnings?
Do you have an external hard drive? if not, you should get one as quick as possible!!
I think that your harddrive is crashing! This means that we will have to back-up  your data IMEDIATELY!
Winos.
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