possible hard disk problem?

[Guest]

Hi, can anyone help with this please.
I am on XP Home/SP2 and have recently been experiencing BSOD with two error
codes 0xF4 and 0x77 (mostly this one). I have not installed any new hardware
or software.
chkdsk works then stops with a problem and the AVG programme I have also
stops and usually produces a BSOD. I have since uninstalled this and
installed AVAST which did a very comprehensive scan finding many errors and
then this also stopped with "unknown hard disk error".
Although the system boots up normally, it sometimes continues without a
problem and on occasions produces a BSOD with one of the above stop messages.

as a non-techie!, can anyone suggest what maybe wrong here, is it software
or maybe an actual disk problem?, nothing ever really tells you the actual
problem.
Is their a independant programme that can actually produce a report telling
me I have a faulty disk?, or something similar?.

any suggestions gratefully received, thanks

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following links to Jim Eshelman's web page - (F4 - right hand
side & 77 - left hand side.)

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

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Will Denny
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
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[Guest]

thanks,
I will investigate further and see if I can get chkdsk to work.