trashed hard drive

[edgedemon]

I was doing a new install og WHS using the x-files edition which comes with a free version of a partition resizing tool. Unfortuantley, this bombed out with an error and now I cant install WHS (unexpected file system error). I tried using recovery console of an XP disk and fix mbr to see if it made any difference, no luck. Installing XP as a test didn't work either, error when copying files, even after doing a full format.

Does anyone know of any good software I can use to repair the drive and get it back to a usable state?
Its an old 120Gb Deskstar IDE drive.

Cheers

 

[edgedemon]

Download WD DLG diagnostics from western digital website, a good utility to diagnose hard drives.

First thing I did - passed all tests

deathstars...

you could try deleting the partitions use parted magic http://partedmagic.com/ then try format and install again?

also try doing a Drive Fitness Test

passed the drive fitness test from the hitachi diagnostics.
Have downloaded partedmagic, can create and format partitions fine using it.
It has a drive testing tool, running pretty much every test I can find, and the only error it has listed is 'bad MFT' Im trying to rebuild the drive boot sector using the testing tool , while I go off and google how to fix a bad MFT, Im presuming it is some file table, but google will help...