I'm glad people still post in here. Check this out and tell me what you guys think... Had my Sony Vaio for like 3 years now, no problems. I just recently started to get the Master Disk S.M.A.R.T error on bootup so I decide to buy the same exact HDD, for compatibility and it's been a good HD over the years. Before the HD arrives, I start getting the BsoD mesages and every one of them are different... .... ..... lol lots of periods. So moving on, The HDD comes and I decided today that I'll convert it to a Primary drive and install XP MCE and use the original HD as a temp backup before it craps out. So I'm installing XP all is going well ad blam, another blue screen.. Restart, and try again, gets to the "Savings Settings" part and bam, another blu screen. Ok so now I'm thinking, "The original hd is still plugged in via sata cable, I'll yank the power and sata off the original and try the reinstall again." I try reinstalling XP again, all is good and it happens again... on the new drive... WTF. I just recently had new DDR ram installed yesterday but I know its not the problem because I was getting the errors before hand. I yanked the original ram out, left the new ram in, and I'm going to start over on the new hd xp install and it's currently formatting the drive. I didnt chose the quick format though so it's taking forever. I'm not sure what the differences are between the quick and regualr nstf format (or whatever is) and the quick one. Obviously the quick one is quicker lol. 17% complete woot woot without a blue screen. Anywho, would anyone know why my computer was throwing error codes left andright like that? Could it possibly be my old ram? I'll keep you updated and let you know how the install goes without the old ram. Oh, I also tried to repair o/s with the cd and I got another BsoD while that was running lol. Any help would be greatly appreciated as i just blew 30 bucks on regCure or what ever it is. What a waste of money. It's funny how you run the program and fix all the errors, and you run it again right afterwards and it finds like 15 more errors.
40% complete and no blue screen. I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it was the old ram