Windows Installed Corrupted...AGAIN???

[ninja_1980]

Hi
I’ve been building PCs for friends and family for the past few years. Recently I came a across a strange problem with my Dads machine I originally put together about 4 years ago. It 1st started with an “invalid system disk” error on booting. I took this opportunity to change the HD and perform a fresh install (I was getting a SMART error on the HD anyway). Now every couple of days the same thing happens. When I run the XP installation disk a new partition has been created (about 8Mb). I’ve ran both memory and HD diagnostics and these come up with no problems. Has anyone got any ideas????

 

[ninja_1980]

No pen drives or USB HDs are connected. The main HD is partitioned into two sections: BOOT and DATA. I would say the system fails after about 10-20 restarts everytime. I cant figure out what’s wrong with this one.

Thanks

 

[ninja_1980]

The BOOT partition was unreadable every time but the DATA section was fine.

I cant remember the exact SMART fault now. I only used a generic utility and it just gave me an overall failure indication (for the original drive). I’m going to test the new HD with the Samsung utility as soon as a have chance but the generic utility gave it thumbs up last time I ran it.