[pepsi_max2k]

Hey all, I just set up a laptop (refurb) for some neighbours that was, erm, interesting...

Basically after first boot, vista post setup (keyboard / time / user name) then an auto reboot, on the next boot it just BSOD'd with an UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. Vista's recovery environment showed no vista partition existing, then using the command line tool to browse to C: (wanted to chkdsk, figured it was mbr playing up) just gave me "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)". In short, C had somehow corrupted itself after running post-setup.

Luckily there was a recovery tool in a seperate partition that was fine, and running that reformatted and reinstalled vista + drivers, and it's fine now. But I'm stumped as to how it managed to become corrupted in the first place (I'm assuming it was fine at first boot as it loaded the post setup, then corrupted after that, but doing the same thing after factory restore and it was fine). Anyone experienced a similar thing? Would it suggest a possible issue with the hard drive or would the fact it's fine now suggest it was a one-off?

Thanks.