Windows 2000 crashed my Harddisk ...

[heeroman]

I've got a new computer 2 weeks before. The configration is as follow:

MSI K7T Tubro without RAID
AMD ThunderBird 900 MHz without overclocking
256 MB NEC PC-133 Ram
Hercules GeForce 2 MX 32 Mb Ram
Maxtor 20GB UDMA-100 Harddisk

Everything was fine during the installation of Windows 2000. After running for one day or two, when the windows startup, it stopped and told me "Unknown Hard Error" in a blue screen.

Then I restart the computer using Windows 2000's CD and run "chkdsk". It had found some errors in the file system and so it fixed them. After rebooting the system and Windows 2000 startup, it gives the same error message as the file system is spoiled again. Now, if I don't boot my computer with Windows 2000, my harddisk would not get the problems.

The dealer suggested me to change the RAM and harddisk. Can the method really work ?
Is there anybody face similar situation and know what's wrong with my computer ?

Thanks a lot.

 

[IBuyUFO]

I can tell you that it can't be windows 2000 because a lot of people use it and there has been little or no known reported problems such as yours. I'm running windows 2000 right now and never encountered your problem. It could really be anything from hard drive to ram. The ram could corrupt the files and/or fat files and you have a non-bootable hard disk. Another possible problem may be that your hard drive is just bad. You should have the drive tested with diskscan or some other utility that has the ability to check the hard drive.

 

[heeroman]

Thanks for you great help !

If I am going to change the RAM, which brand/one would you suggest?

 

[IBuyUFO]

If you have any spare computers you can take out a stick and determine whether it's the ram or the hard drive itself. In terms of ram Crucial/micron, viking are good but there are some other brands.