Possible HDD failure

[dapizzaman28]

I have had to format my computer about 4 times now. This is because when I restart my computer I sometimes get spontaneous corrupted files or windows cannot find etc.. problems and computer hangs etc.

However after formatting my the one partition I have, which is the partition my o/s, win2kpro is on, I reinstall win2kpro on it. I know that this is not the BEST way to format, if not can you suggest better plz.

But the problem is that after doing this again and again, I still get corrupted files and windows cannot find... messages. Now chkdsk doesnt work either every time, as when I run it, it goes an unspecified error occurred.

When I try to get windows 2000 setup to use emergency repair disk to repair windows 2000, it goes C:\ is corrupt and cannot be repaired. This happens after every time of format.

From the above information, can you deduce that it is a hardware problem or software problem. Do you think formatting the computer PROPERLY will effect the result?

 

[Derango]

Sounds to me that, either you've got somthing going on with the win2k CD and your CDROM (IE, it not transfering the required files without corruption), or the hard drive might be going south on you. Run the diagonostic utilities that can be found on your hard drive manufacturer's web site.

 

[mee987]

if you can get the system booted, do a full scandisk including surface scan, see what happens. if you find no problems there, download a hdd diagnostic tool from your hdd manufacturer (or get one from someone else like maxtor, ibm, seagate, wd, etc.)

just out of curiosity, is your system overclocked?