XP pro chkdsk problems with hdd/game installation

i have been having trouble installing a game i downloaded almost a year ago
(rise of nations) it has installed fine previously

I am getting cabinet file errors (.cab)

i have downloaded Advanced cab repair, repaired all the game cabs and tried
and it failed

so i decided to perofmr defrag and re build page file and do a chkdsk

did it through command line in windows (chkdsk that is) and it found errors,
so i stuck chkdsk /f to try the fix, it said to make one open up on next
boot, so it did, and it did its thing, i re build page file when i restarted
and set it as 748mb to 1024 mb and i then tried a fresh chkdsk in windows on
cmd and it came up with the same error after i performed the /f on the
chkdsk when i re booted (the error has something to do with Bitmap?) so i
thought what the hell i tried to instal the game again and a different cab
file ballsed it up, so i have given up, why wont this game work when i was
playing on it yesterday and needed to re install it today and i cant, also
whats wrong with ckdsk

is my hard drive knackered or on its way out?

it is a ATA133 maxtor 80gb second hand, bought it from a gd mate who
wouldn't rip me off with a shoddy disk but does it sound like this disk is
on its way out because of chkdsk constantly returning the bitmap error

if so its an excuse to get a SATA drive as my board supports it

and will let me have dvd-rw on ts own ide controller

any help on either of the topics

game and chkdsk would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Chris

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MSI KT6V
AMD Athlon XP2600+

when my hard drive gave up then computer would lock up when you saved any
think to disk,
sounds like its the program,
if you can do a defrag then test if by install some thing esle you know
works.
if thats ok then it,s not the hard drive