Hard drive needing repairs far too often

lately, I've had issues with my boot disk (internal HD). it tells me that I need to repair it every other day. what can I do to fix the issue? I've been repairing it, but it never seems to get fully 'fixed'! thanks

Wan, Try running your Apple Hardware Test . It's not perfect, but may flag something.
You may have a hard drive going bad or bad RAM causing directory corruption, something like that. Maybe not the whole Mac going south.
A more thorough test for RAM is the free Rember.
Use the extended test also.
Here's a nice faq on RAM testing.
DALE

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