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Hard drive issue won't boot

I have an 2nd HDD with Win XP on a dual boot.  This is just for my games and nothing else.  It has been booting up fine and now out of nowhere it goes to boot and I get the error "windows/system/config/system is missing"  and it tells me to put in my windows disk for repair.  When I boot to my main drive and I try to copy any files from D to C I get the "Data Error Cyclic Redundancy Check"  and D drive is SLOW in doing anything.  It's been regularly scanned for viruses so that's not it.  Is there a solution without formatting again?
If I have to format, I will, but I'd like to know what caused it.
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chkdsk can fix the problem, particularly if files are corrupt and that is the case with a bad disk. psyclown's method should be used after the disk problems have been rectified , but they don't help much with a bad disk. CRC errors are a sure sign of a bad filesystem or disk.
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