Bad disk would be my first guess, or bad RAM. Run chkdsk, then run MemTest86 if you're really intent on finding out what happened.
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Bad disk would be my first guess, or bad RAM. Run chkdsk, then run MemTest86 if you're really intent on finding out what happened.