I suggest that you enabe your drive's S.M.A.R.T. in BIOS (Self-monitoring and reporting tool). It will alert you IF your HD is dying.
Anyway, that what you've expirianced doesn't mean that your HD is faulty. It looks to me like VGA or mobo is to blame. Possibly lack of contact between the two.
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