External HDD Noob needs help.

[Torey]

So when it comes to drives failing or having general problems, I'm quite the noob, I've never had a drive fail or have an issue, ever. So I was downloading a (Legal) torrent of course and the power goes out, at least I'm pretty sure this is when it started, I come back and didn't think much of it, the next day I open my torrent program and I see that one of my files says error redundancy check or something, So I do a disk check and it says nothing is wrong, but in windows event viewer I get the error ID 7, which is a bad or multiple bad sectors. Now I've opened crystal disk and get this (Link). I don't k now what that necessarily means, I'm thinking the drive is failing, but have read some places that sometimes the files just could be corrupted and you can delete it etc, I'm not sure, just wondering if anyone can shed some light on this. I'm backing up the files from this HDD right now, but sadly I'm very scarce on room at the moment and would hate to have to delete anything off of my other externals =/.

 

By the way, I have managed to lower the temperatures of the last 3 drives all down to 40 c or lower by taking one of my internal drive bays and setting it on my desk and putting them inside it, instead of just stacking the drives on top of each other :P Their all in small plastic enclosed cases, the go flex design, or like it.