Abruptly cuts off during startup

 I have a Lenovo 3000 N200 0769 BWG and have been having a lot o fproblems alately. My laptop started ABRUPTLY cutting off (like power loss) during wake from sleep or normal startup. Always just as it got to the windows screen. You also notably heard the HDD click as power was cut.
*this happens even if laptops cold
*laptop does get noticably hot- it didnt used to.
*Also thoroughly cleaned it out with compressed air. No difference
*ASSUMED it was HDD failure so installed new HDD 320GB and bought Win7 ultimate - ok at first then started doing it again (i think after updates*)
*when going through the failed startups, it eventually loads the startup repair, identifys some faults and mentions "bad-driver", then it will startup fine... until restarted/shut down again!
Also in my device manager I have two "BASE SYSTEM DEVICE" listed under other devices. Windows cannot find device drivers.  -- I would like to know what drivers I need for these or what they are please?
Ive tried disabling those two devices via device manager then restart but get same problem.
Really in need of some help with this as I cannot afford a new laptop.
INFORMATION FROM ACTION CENTRE
Some of the errors I've had relating to this:
windows failed to start because of missing system files
windows failed to start because of a problem with the hard disc
windows was not able to determine the cause of the problem
these messages are logged after the failed startups where it cuts off and these is always a "windows was not properly shut down" message before them
Really need some real Lenovo Tech help on this please!
Will, England

Not sure if this helps, but, I've experienced similar problems.
Computer shuts down suddenly and randomly.
Boot always takes three attempts, everytime.
Corrective action so far:
Restored computer to factory state (used Lenovo recovery utility)
No improvement - still shutsdown .
Next step - update BIOS - found an update on the Lenovo support site.
I look forward to any other suggestions from others.

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