Int. IDE drive checksum errors

[marcfrick2112]

Hello, Hoping someone can help. Lately my internal
8.5 GB IDE hard drive has been reporting checksum errors.
The errors are usually confined to single directories.
(e.g. my James Pond 2 WHDLoad directory last night)
It has occured on 2 different partitions, Workbench and my Games
partition. I can 'fix' it temporarily by backing up the partition and formatting
it, then re-copying the backup. Could my HD be dying? Oddly,
my 2 GB SCSI drive is even older, and I never had a single error.

If the drive is dying, any ideas to copy my old HD data to a new drive?
I don't have any way to back up 8.5 GB right now.
Could I put the new drive in lieu of my CD-ROM just to format and copy the old drive to it?

My Amiga: A1200 PowerTower, DCE 68060 @ 50MHz with SCSI module, 2 MB Chip, 64 MB Fast RAM, OS 3.9,
8.5 IDE drive (Seagate, I think), OS 3.9 with Boing Bag 2 update.

Many thanks for any help

[marcfrick2112]

Thanks to everyone for thier input. I am quite sure that my system is fine with an 8.5 GB HD. I have been running this drive for years, even with OS3.1 (and NSDPatch), this problem only showed its' face recently. Isn't OS3.9 supposed to take care of big hard drives?? My Workbench partition is the first 900 MB's available, BTW. Others are Work: (1.0 GB) Work2: (1.9 GB) Work3: (1.9) and Creative: (1.9 GB).
Marc