I just recently built a new computer with a serial ATA hard drive, and thus, decided to put my older WD 20 GB IDE drive in an older computer.
When I booted up the old system, the post screen said, "imminent hard drive failure". I tried reformatting it with my Win XP CD. After I chose the partitions and told it to install XP to the C drive, it attempted to do so, but seemed to hang without making much progress at all. After about 10 minutes, it told me the disk is damaged.
Is there any way to repair it? I would really like to use this disk if I could. It's only a couple of years old. I'm not very familiar with DOS commands.
Any help would be appreciated.
When I booted up the old system, the post screen said, "imminent hard drive failure". I tried reformatting it with my Win XP CD. After I chose the partitions and told it to install XP to the C drive, it attempted to do so, but seemed to hang without making much progress at all. After about 10 minutes, it told me the disk is damaged.
Is there any way to repair it? I would really like to use this disk if I could. It's only a couple of years old. I'm not very familiar with DOS commands.
Any help would be appreciated.