My computer is a couple of weeks old, and already I am getting the same re-occurring CHKDSK error message that I got on my old computer.
I run CHKDSK, and it tells it it "discovered free space marked as allocated in the master file table (MFT) bitmap". I run CHKDSK/F to no avail. I got this message consistently on my other computer as well. Does anyone know why this is occuring, and if there is a way to actually fix it?
Bad sectors do corrupt and spread; is it the same hard drive? If not, I would start backing data up. The other possibility, if for whatever reason you're running FAT32, is that the filesystem itself is causing you issues. FAT32 is not journaled and I have heard all too often that certain files, and in some cases, parts of certain files, are being moved without notice.