i have a slight problem on my mother in laws pc. She has a hewlett Packard pavillion, it is about 6 years old, and she has been having major problems trying to do just about anything, so i decided to format the harddrive and reinstall windows, when i tried to do this it told me there were a number of bad sectors so i ran the check and i thought the bad secotrs were fixed, i then formated the harddrive and reinstalled windows. all ok, however a week later she is having more problems she cannot get on line and is been told there are more bad sectors on the harddrive, i thought once the hard drive had been formatted the bad sectors would go away is this the case or should i buy a new hard drive? my mother in law have a Hewlett Packard pavillion 6650, the system crashed, i reinstalled windows, unfortunally the recovery disc does not work, i need drivers for the mother board audio

If more and more sectors are getting lost, I sat it's time for a new HD. If you can't fix it, blow it up and deny that you saw anything.

Yes, once the hard drive starts getting bad sectors it is a good time to get a new one. That is just the start of it and it will only get worse. <===Lefty=== AMD 64 3200+ 200 GB WD Geforce 5500FX 256 MB 512 MB Ram Needs more. Windows XP