Dump of Physical Memory???

I don't know if this is the proper newsgroup for this or not because I have
never had any experience with this particular problem. The problem is with
my laptop, Compaq Presario V2100, 512 RAM, AMD Athlon processor. Last week
my Windows XP got a corrupt Windows/System32/Config/System file and Windows
would not start up. I did not want to reinstall XP because of losing all my
stuff but I finally did last night. After installing Windows and drivers.
I went to Microsoft updates to get all the updates needed for it. There
were 36 updates and it got through downloading 21 of them and the computer
did a "dump of physical memory" and restarted. It came up and said it had
just recovered from a serious error and I sent an error message to
Microsoft. It came back and said something about my hard drive (sorry, I
don't remember the exact wording). Now today, Windows will start up, but
every time I go to try the updates again, it goes into this "dump of
physical memory" and restarts the minute it starts scanning for updates.
With this very limited information, could someone please tell me if this is
a Windows problem or a hard drive problem? Do I need a new hard drive?
Thanks in advance for any help offered.


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