Bad HDD?

[jfall]

My parents have a store bought HP 503n computer (POS imo). Every week it seems that files on the drive are getting corrupted causing boot problems. I end up having to re-install WinXP pro every time. I've done full formats trying both NTFS and Fat32 to no avail. Could it just be a bad hard drive? Should I try a low level format? I'd like to just replace the drive, but want to be sure that's the problem before doing so.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

You can test the harddrive(manufacturer's website/utilities) but had a friend has one of these..it had a bad mobo..ymmv and goodluck.

 

[jfall]

Was you friend experiencing the same problem, or something else?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: jfall
Was you friend experiencing the same problem, or something else?

pretty much..tested the other parts in a similar machine and all were good but the mobo was the trouble..he got one of these ..his daughter still using it