So heres the story, early last year the Hard Drive on my Dell 9300 went out suddenly (I think it was electrical becasue it wasent making any noise before it went out) well a good friend of mine needed a computer for school, so I gave her laptop and said it just needs a new Hard Drive, get that and I'll install windows XP and all the drivers for it. She bought a Samsung HD and I downloaded all the drivers needed from the dell site using the Express Service Tag so I had all the drivers I needed. I installed everything and downloaded service packs 2 and 3 for the OS then about a day later we get a message saying "Disk Read Error" everywhere we go on the web says to just reinstall windows, which I do, and we get another 24hrs out of it before we have to do it again. Could I have done somthing wrong when installing the drivers?

I am having this problem when installing on a 4 disk Raid 5 Array using 18gb (IBM) SCSI drives, I have run a full disk check (using IBM's own tool) on all of the drives and they are all fine, and I have run a consitancy check on the array and that is fine also, so my only guess is that it is a windows problem, I will be trying the format in FAT first method described above and will let you know if this works, but any other ideas would be great incase that doesn't work.

I ran some diagnostics and apparently I just recived a bad Hard Drive.