Toshiba P10-304 crashing, hard drive problems?

Hi all

I have a Toshiba P10-304 and its going a bit mental fact lately.

I am running XP Pro and basically it started crashing frequently and then later he came up with the error: media test failure, check, etc.. So, I thought that the hard drive was dead. Since then, I bought a new hard drive (seagate momentus) and formatted correctly and worked fine for 2 days. But now the 3rd day, he began to display similar symptoms like my old toshiba oem drive. It tends to crash frequently, the continuous drive to make a horrible noise even with the system delayed broke down. It also for the first time displayed the same messages error 'media test failure...' but then started restarted fine, but only to the failure to new about 5 minutes later.

Ive just finished College and do a bit of web design and its really annoying me so I would appreciate any help.

See you soon,.
Eliane

Hello

It may be that the IDE controller is faulty, this explains why the new HARD drive also have problems!

The only thing you can do is contact a partner of Serivce for a medical examination.

Good bye

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