oh, I meant to add this link, little more info on formatting:  http://www.computerhope.com/formathl.htm

I do lean in a direction of what jwhitham is saying. Usually, once the hard drive is regormated and restored, it shouldn't go bad very quickly.

Several years ago I had a misbehaving hard drive like that, and it turned out it had a few bad tracks in a boot sector - of all places. Ended up getting a replacement from the manufacturer.

Recently, I had a computer that behaved somewhat errantly because of driver conflicts... but lot of that was self-inflicted... On that one, I reformatted and started from scratch, and it's working quite well now.

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