Hard Drive Failing Message

When I run the Disk repair, on the bottom it says the the Hard Drive is failing, what does this mean is there a firmware update? I have backed up all the documents but wanted to know what this means since it seems fine?
Thanks

Mr. Beans,
Here is what I would do in your situation. Buy, or put together yourself, an external hard drive that supports Firewire connection. The last time I put one together myself I bought this external enclosure...
http://tinyurl.com/ncgbg
It is only $32 shipped and supports both USB2 and Firewire connection AND I have verified that when connected to my eMac with Firewire, it can boot the eMac (with the bootable volume installed on the drive in it).
All you need is an internal hard drive (Parallel ATA) to toss into it. Takes only a philips screwdriver and 10 minutes to put it together.
So once you have your external drive, use a program like Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) or SuperDuper and clone your internal drive to the external drive, making sure it you check the box to make the drive bootable.
After that is done (may take a while (10s of minutes if not close to a half hour or so the first time)), you can go to System preference and change your start up disk to the external clone you just created. Reboot your Mac and verify it boots of the external ok.
If it boot up and you are running off the external, my first try at getting rid of this problem would be to reformat the internal drive which should map out any bad sectors it finds. If it is able to format ok, then run CCC or SuperDuper again and this time clone the external back to the internal drive. Change the boot drive back to the internal and then reboot.
You should be back to square one, running your internal drive and it should look just like it always has since you used cloning to transfer everything back and forth. Go into Disk Utility and check the internal drive status for S.M.A.R.T. and if it is ok, then maybe you just had some bad sectors that have been mapped away. If you still get a message warning of trouble, there may be something else wrong with the drive and you will want to replace it.
Since you just cloned everything to the external drive, you have two choices. One is to always boot from the external and work from there. The other is to open the eMac, pull out the bad drive and then take the one out of the external case and put it into the eMac. So you will get a new drive, already set up exactly like the old one, and you might get more drive space as well if you bought a larger on than was in there before.
If after formatting the internal you find it seems ok now, just be sure to check it frequently and use CCC to do periodic updates to your clone on the external just in case. If it ever dies on you, you can simply boot up from the external and keep going.
Best of luck,
Patrick

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