if you have a computer with only one harddrive and you play alot of games on it, and by some means it (the HDD) becomes damaged somehow, what sort of problems would you expect to see when you try to play a game??

the games on my laptop slowly started to stop working. now diablo 1 won't work, says something about directx not being installed, i have latest version updated all drives.
some games won't even respond. others like homeworld 2 run just fine but they are in a window 1/3rd the size of the screen and i can see the desktop in the background.

other games do the same thing but the 1/3rd is black. the game is running, i can hear it and click on tabs but all i see is black.

Black & White looks like the earth would if god had p.m.s on the 2nd day of creation.

i have re-formatted my laptop the last time this happend and almosed all my games worked but now it's happening again.


i would think this is a video card problem but others dissagree.

what do you all think?