Tomdarkness

Hey,

I am not 100% sure this is my hard drive but..

When I am doing something that uses "heavy hard drive activity" e.g Installing something, moving areas on a game or copying/moving files that computer "crashes".

Basically no new programs will open and as soon as a program tries to read/write from the hard drive it crashes and becomes not responding or the installation/copy dialog just gets stuck on a file with the animation of the file copying still going-but as soon as you click cancel or any other button the installation/copy dialog just crashes as well.

The only way I can fix this is by holding down the power button on the box (Shut down will not work, it just does nothing when you try to shut it down).

It only used to happen a little bit before, but it is happening most of the time now (It took me 3 attempts to install Visual Studio because it kept "crashing"!!!!)

Please, please help me as I can't really afford to be buying new hard drives

Thanks,

Tom