BSOD indicating bad hard drive?

Jaffee

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I am repeatedly getting a BSOD while playing DnD Online. Here's the error:

KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR

Tech info:

0x0000007A (0xC07B9D80, 0xC0000000E, 0xF73B0130, 0x29CDC860)

atapi.sys - Address F73B0130 base at F739F000, Datestamp 41107b4d

I've been poking around on the net trying to figure out what the heck is up and can't find a solid answer. The BSOD comes up at random intervals while playing, and they've become increasingly close together. I've got it diskchecking right now (I'm on a different system) and it hasn't crashed yet, so could it be the software? When I reboot and go into BIOS, the HDD remains undetected, but my other IDE device, a DVD drive, is still detected. I power down completely and power back on and it boots back into Windows. Weird? Or is this common?

Also, the PC had a full system failure and crashed when I tried to install a Windows XP program (DnD Online) on the PC while it was still running Windows 2000 (forgot to check the req's for the game, hehe....). I reformatted and everything has gone well until today whilst playing.

I think it could be a couple things, please tell me what you guys think.

A. Bad memory module (accounts for like half BSOD's out there)
B. Bad HDD, or still some bad sectors from the system crash the other night
C. Not enough power to HDD, causing it to shut down. My rig is as below, with an included PSU that I've not had problems with thus far. Could this be the first?

Sorry for the long post, any help is greatly appreciated in advance.
 

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