HD keeps going corrupt causing boot up issues??

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Bellevilleguy

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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
 
I would replace the drive anyway. I would suggest getting a Seagate, not a WD. Too many bad drives from WD in the last few years, I've had none from Seagate.
 
Could very well be the HD. When you reload, do you do a full format? How about a low-level format/zero-write? Sometimes if your drive has bad sectors this will fix it. You may also want to run all the Western Digital utilities on it you can. If it's still under warranty and you can get any kind of error code from their software, you could probably have it replaced.

I usually stick with Hitachi 2.5" drives. Most all of my laptops have had those and I've yet to have one fail *knock on wood* :P Western Digital desktop drives seem to be fine, but I have come across a couple dead 2.5" ones.
 
Thanks Guys

I will take the advice and not get a WD drive when I replace it!!

When I have reinstalled in the past I just did full formats, and like I said that would fix it up fine... I will keep the zero write in mind though....

It's actually working 100% again after i managed to get it to scan disk this afternoon. Nothing came up on the scan screen, as i watched it go through all 5 processes, but nevertheless it is running fine again.

Really get ticked off when it craps out!! Really wish it would just die all together, makes the fix so much easier!!

Thanks for the help!
 
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