Quote Originally Posted by Le Boule View Post

... hard drive ... Seagate. ... Short scan found nothing wrong, long scan found 24 errors ... I'm guessing it's best to replace that hard drive ...
Yep, if Seagate's Diagnostic found errors, the drive is failing and is no longer trustable.

Quote Originally Posted by Le Boule View Post

...guess I should consider adding Memory to it as well. Think I'd still be better off financially than buying a new desktop.
If everything else appears fine, I agree. $70 for 4GB of RAM and another $70 for a 1TB HD and it should serve you well for a few more years.

(New "el'cheapo" Desktop's running Windows 7 start at about double that amount [$300]).