Bellevilleguy

My first post here!! Needing the help of others on this one!! I have a HP DV5000 series Laptop that I only use for email, and web browsing. Every few months I will be using it and it will get really slow, so slow you think it has froze up?? Once you get it to shutdown and try rebooting it either will not boot up past the windows boot screen, or it takes a super long time to finally work. The only way I can fix it is the do a complete reinstall of XP, or I can run the SpinRite software and everything is good again. So for some reason files on this Hard drive are getting corrupted for reason's I can't explain, besides the Hard drive being the issue?? I have checked event viewer, and no issues are coming up..

I did get it to boot this afternoon, but it is running very slow and HDD light seems to on almost all of the time. Clicking on "My Computer" took forever to open that up. I have tried to do Windows Scan disk and HD Bios scan as well, but both simply freeze up at 10%

The HD in it is a Fujitsu 120GB, I'm awful tempted to replace it with a Western Digital drive. Before I spend the money to do this, do you guys think I am on the right track here, or is there something I am missing? Thanks in advance for the help