Hi all seem to have developed a problem with my lovely new samsung spinpoint 160gb 7200rpm hardrive. All was well was using the computer in normal fashion when al of a sudden everything seemd to slow down and halt like xp crashing machine had been on for two days and thought ohh it just needs a reboot so selected start>restart.
Fisrt problem was the machine wouldn't boot in to xp after 5 mins of no activity i got nowhere and so pressed reset the second time it tried to boot it came up with hal.dll is corrupt or missing, fair enough i thought i'd been meaning to reinstall anyway and i had my hardisk in two prtions c my boot and d my data so i thought i'll just re-install xp all data is safe on d partition no joy when i boot from xp cd and i select install winxp when i get to the screen that says select partition you want to install on there are no partions there and xp says the disk is not recognized i press enter and setup crashes(blue screen of death with some error message) so i tried booting from win 98 cd and it boots fine and i run fdsik and select enable large disk report at this point the fdisk program crashes out saying fixed disk read error.
I'm stumped anyone have any ideas is there anyway i can format the hdd and restart or is it the hdd thats faulty, running on my old maxtor 13gb at the minute.
Thanks for any help
Atif


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