Problem fixing hard drive errors

I own Toshiba Satellite A250. My hard drive is probably before major failure. I am trying to fix the errors as running the command chkdsk c:/f  from command prompt but this can't fix the errors.
How should i proceed?
I don't know what exactly is wrong with the hard drive but sometimes when starting laptop it freezes right after loading the bios. I thought it is a problem with the bios but it seems that it is a problem with the hard drive.

How did you test the RAM? Use www.memtest.org
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