HP Pavilion Hard Drive Problem

Hey there guys! Thanks for the message Will i will change my screen spec shortly!

Ok the problem! I got my notebook in September 2006 and after about 2 months i got into using Windows Movie Maker at college and decided to give it a go at home. Problem was WMM would not work properly. The videos would judder, it would freeze, crash everthing! I never got round the problem after trying everthing, so i decided to do System Recovery. After it was working fine, well the first couple of times i ran WMM, then the same old starting happening. AGAIN! I forgot about it as i finished my video work at college and began using my notebook as usual. Then a VIRUS! I must have installed something and i could not use my notebook at all. I would no load up or do anything so my only option was to do another System Recovery. It fixed the problem and was working ok for some time. I moved home and both my computers got the same "virus" according to AOL and i was billed hundereds of £££'s. AOL's advice was to reinstall windows. Hence ANOTHER bloody System Recovery on both my Notebook and my desktop PC. After the third Recovery my laptop was playing up. Constantly crashing, freezing up. Basically not working. I contacted HP and they told me to do a Hard Drive Test. To my horror it failed and HP said that i had used the System Recovery tool to many times (max once), and my hard drive was broken.

They have arranged it to be repaired but i cannot belive my 6month old notebook needs a new HDD. Is this true what the say and if it is isnt it pretty ridiculus? I have performed over 10 reinstalls of Windows on my desktop.

Are notebook drives more damagable??

PLEASE HELP!!!

Thanks Again!

 

This shouldn't happen. Hard disk are built so accurately, it shouldn't matter how many times you do a system recovery, nothing should happen to it, at all. If anything had happened to it, the effect would be alot bigger, to the point where the notebook would be unstable and unuseable. Anyway, see what P do, and see if the problem is repeated.

 

Hi, there's no difference between a system recovery and any other initialization and formatting of the drive and those are designed for years of constant writing/deletion etc. Is HP actually saying they won't cover the drive under guarantee because of trying multiple recoveries or was that just a 'techies' comment?