2nd time a HDD has died....

[chronic9]

have a client that has bad luck with harddrives? (is it bad luck?)
first time his drive died for some unknown reason, it was formated... getdataback got all of his stuff back, i charged a lot, bought him a external drive, made a robocopy script to backup all his folders. told him to run it every time he did something important. (i didnt set scheduled backups since his PC usage was intermittent)

calls me yest "my PC died again, i turn it on, and it loads the windows xp logo and BSODs"
brought the PC to my house, the BSOD msg is - process1_initialization_failed

wtf is causing his HDDs to die? i DOUBT he formats them for kicks.... HDD controller? some sort of shorting of the mobo? a virus? - SECOND time though? unlikely, unless he has an enemy...

suggestions? ideas?

EDIT: tried inserting XP cd and doing repair, didnt help.... the installer only saw 160gb of the drive... its a 320 gb drive

my vista box shows the same thing, as un-formatted space....
Spinrite said it cant run since the HDD or w/e is damaged
memtest 86 ran for an hour with 0 errors - one of the google results suggested that it was memory....

 

[MrsOldMX]

Bad power supply in my opinion...but who knows

 

[chronic9]

hmmm it is a generic PSU...

 

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I would invest in a quality Corsair of PC Power and Cooling PSU at the very least.