overheating hard drive

[CowGoesMoo]

I have a sata drive that is over heating and causing it to make strange sounds during installations and sometimes it just freezes. Also I keep getting errors that the disk is full even when it has plenty of space. I am going to get the hd replaced, but now there have been some errors about memory locations. Could this be caused by the bad HD or will the memory have to be replaced too? I will run memtest to figure out for sure, but for now can somoene just tell me that there is hope that the memory is ok.

CowGoesMoo

 

[Nohr]

A bad hard drive will not cause any other computer part to go bad. You might want to fix your case cooling problem rather than just the symptom and buying another drive that may overheat.

 

[CowGoesMoo]

Yes I plan to add cooling to the new hd. The case itself has 5 fans already. When I was shutting down windows I got memory error in location XXXXXXXXXX . cant tell you the exact message it went away before I had a chance to get it down. My question is could bad data on the hd be responsible for Windows reporting memory errors or is it more likely that the RAM might be bad too..?