Satellite L300 - several bad sectors on HARD drive

Hello

I'm very angry with my Satellite L300 - 14G. One morning, my computer refuses to boot Vista, each attempt ended with a crash and go back to the choice of startup (with 'repair my computer', 'safe mode' and 'start windows normally').

I could save my data with a utility disk and try to "HDD Regenerator V1.71", which located a number of bad sectors on the HARD disk. I decided to put my computer as on the first day with the built-in utility.
Two weeks ago, the same problem.

I bought another hard drive and replaced it. Reinstalled Vista and my data... 1 month later... still the same problem (currently HDD Regenerator is scanning and find bad sectors 185!)
I don't think that would be caused by a virus. I use Nod32 and I don't do anything illegal with my machine.

Some mistakes seem to be generated every day... until the crash of the OS...
Anyone have ever seen such a problem?
(I bought in September 2008... no guarantee more for my machine)

Let's take a look at your problem:

-hdd went wrong and you are using a third party program to fix
+ Why don't check you with "chkdsk" and read the smart values of the disc? +
-you bought another hard drive and after a short period of time the same failure occurs
+ was the new hard drive, a big and cheap or a little and a little expensive? +

We will analyze what happened to your hard disks:
-recovery written datas sectorwise back in training > bad sector crashed > and an error occurs
-second hdd also went wrong > if this isn't a sustainable (expensive) hdd, it went bad because of operation > do you often take your laptop with you?

This brings me to:
-check the smart get more information
-chech crc when reading from another source on the hard drive to verify if the hard drive or the controller or your memory gone bad
-get a 'good' hdd or spend it on tests
-make a recovery and everything right after a chkdsk to make sure that the file structure is ok before working with

I never heard of a disk controller brocken on the motherboard of this distributor - but what I know...

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