300 N200 eats Hard Drives?

Hi,
After about 12 months of use my laptop started to act flaky with more frequent than expected crashes during routine use. After a few more months the HDD died, and I had to replace it. Now 9 months later I can't get it to boot up, and suspecting a corrupt windows installation, I tried putting the HDD in an external USB enclosure, and connecting it to another XP machine. When I try to open the drive is says "The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable."
While I could accept that one HDD could fail, it seems unlikely that a second would also fail. Has anyone heard reports of these laptops damaging hard drives?
Thanks/Paul

  I have encountered no such reports.  I've been using laptops extensively since 1986.  In my opinion all laptop hard drives are DISPOSABLE.   An essential part of backing up data on a laptop is to have another hard drive compatible with the laptop to enable the user to easily back up his data and if necessary, replace his own laptop's hard drive at a moment's notice.

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