Hewelt frakin Pakard

[Gamazson]

Ok about 6 months ago my mother bough this Hewelt Pakard prebuilt system. The darn thing has been one headache affter another. It is windows vista so we have had to deal with the usual problems there. But the bloddy thing has also been giving us the blue screen of death at least once a day. (I was under the impression that wasn't supposed to happen with vista)

Last week the darn thing started looking up during start up. I would have to hard boot it from time to time just to get it to progress. Then it once in a while it will either blue screen just affter windows boots, or it will give us this window where it would attempt to repair itself.

Finally mom got a black screen that said "Hard drive failure imminent." naturally we sought local help at a computer store. Where the computer promptly worked when they tried to see what was wrong. I am at my wits end. With this off and on working/not working and inconsistent error messages I am afraid to send it to HP for its warranty for fear that a lazy technician will think it works just fine and send it back to us un-repaired.

Any of those better inclined have any advice for me?

(I have attempted to re-install windows but the computer asked me to insert the disk with the drivers for my hard drive (Which I don't have, or know where to even find). Is that normal with Vista? Because I have never been asked for a driver for a hard drive. I was under the impression that those were very plug and play and held the drivers for everything else.)

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AKA Nexus