Windows XP corrupting HD - what is the solution?

Hi!

I have read many posts about this problem, it would seem it is well
known (and yet another indication of poor quality from Microsoft). I
used my PC for over a year with Windows XP without a hitch, but only
recently it started to give me the blue 'Windows has been stopped to
protect your hardware' screen with various errors on it; recently I
got sick of my PC crawling along because it was full of irremovable
files and such, so I reformatted it and did a clean install of XP -
big mistake! It repeatedly gave me the blue 'corrupt HD' screen, and
I was all ready to dump my HD (as many other people have said) until I
tried to install XP again, without installing anything else. Now it
seems to work just fine, although I only did that today so there's
still time.

My question is this: what am I to do to fix it? Is there a website I
should look at to find a list of updated drivers or whatever for my
hardware for this shabbily written version of Windows? I am not going
to buy new hardware as I know my existing hardware works just fine in
it's own right.

Thanks!
.

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