Boot disk error problem on B&W G3

[Sue Street]

I'm running a B&W G3/350 (rev.2) using OS 8.6, with 2 internal HD's (6GB 
- the original boot disk + a second internal 60 GB HD  that was put in 
last year), and 448 MB RAM. The machine boots from the 6GB original HD - 
When the machine booted up last night, it seemed to be working fine and 
then the mouse froze just after I had disconnected from the net (using 
Netscape 4.75). I couldn't shut down the machine so I pushed the 
"restart" button on the front of the tower and it rebooted.  After it 
rebooted, the dialogue box came up on the screen  & indicated the system 
hadn't been shut down properly so it began to run Disk First Aid.  Just 
about half way through the scan, an Error Message appeared in the 
dialogue box and it immediately stopped running Disk First Aid. 

Instead it said: 
"Error:  And error has been detected on your boot disk and Disk First is 
unable to repair it. Please back up your drive immediately. Restart your 
machine and go to the Help Page in the Macintosh OS for for more 
information about running Disk First Aid".

I tried to re-boot the machine and held the SHIFT key down to see if it 
made any difference without the preference loading but it didn;t seem to 
matter.  The only thing I can think of that might be related to this 
sudden change was downloading a Word 2000 document that I had sent from 
my Dell laptop. The document is only 350 k, it didn't contain any 
graphics or images (just plain text).and it seemed to download fine; so 
other than that, I can't figure out what's going on. 

Unfortunately I don't have any other diagnostic tools to examine the 
drives more closely but I'm wondering if my original 6 GB HD is corrupt 
or dying?  What sort of programs might be helpful (esp. since First Aid 
couldn't fix it)?  Does this sound like it will require a trip to the 
Apple service tech at my university? I just don't want the problem to 
corrupt my second 60GB HD that was installed last year - it seems to 
work fine. Any ideas or suggestions from the list would be greatly 
appreciated.

Many thanks in advance,
Sue
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