[blubla]

Good day,

first of all, my HD is a 250Gb Seagate ST3250310AS; and OS is Windows XP Media Center SP3.

The problem started when my computer started freezing. While playing a game, the game constantly froze (but just for a few seconds-about 5). what happened often, but in the end, a BSOD appeared (error code 0x00000F4).
After that, the system couldn't boot to desktop. It could pass the Windows XP logo, but went back to the POST screen after that.
I installed the HD in another system(as slave), and ran Chkdsk on that drive. After Chkdsk finished, I set the problematic HD to master, and the other, slave. The system could boot to the desktop.
I placed the HD to my other PC and the same problem happened again, it couldn't pass the Windows logo. I ran chkdsk /r on that PC with the Recovery Console. This gave me 2 error messages: invalid boot.ini / corrupted windows\system32\system. I found out that these happened because I lost the boot.ini and system file after the chkdsk process.
I copied the file boot.ini and the entire config folder (from windows\system32) to the problematic HD. Still it couldn't boot to desktop on my PC But I could boot to desktop on my other PC, but with some problems (only in safe mode though, as booting normally gave some errors-Windows was not activated. I assume error was given because some Windows activation files were deleted.) Also, in safe mode, the desktop was kinda strange. I couldn't open some .exe files, some of my previous desktop files were not there. The Start Menu was totally blank, except for the accessories part, which had some of the files previously there, but not all.
I restarted this other PC and it didn't even show the Windows logo, just a black screen. I set this problematic HD to slave, and went to the windows\system32\config. I found out that the config folder was corrupted (showed 0 bytes, gave corrupted and unreadable error, couldn't delete).
Well, I got to this point. I went to get some information related to my problem, and read that it may be HD failing.

Can anyone tell me if there are any solutions or is it that the HD is really failing?

[Spencer2004]

try repairing windows with your xp setup cd, also u can check the health of your hard drive with speedfan which should tell u if the hard drive is faulty or the courruption was caused by something else