Whats wrong with my Harddrive?

Something's wrong with my 160gb IDE harddrive , when i try to fromat my computer using a
Windows XP cd with NTFS , after the format a screen pop up saying:

Windows Xp Professional setup
Setup was unable to format the partition.THe disk may be damaged.

Make sure the drive is switch on and properly connected to your computer. If the disk is a SCSI disk, make sure your SCSI devices are properly terminated. Consult your computer manual or SCSI adapter documentation for more information.

You must select a different partition for Windows XP.
To continue, press ENTER.

^sorry i dont have a digital camera
anyways how do i trouble shoot this..?
THanks for reading this !

did you try scandisk first?

how do i do that?(i dont have any os installed)

this is what i got from checkdisk

Thie volume Serial Number is 7041-4942
CHKDSK is checking the volume...
CHKDSK found one or more erros on the volume.
10231392 kilobytes total dsk space.
10190408 kilobytes are avaiable.

8192 byete in each allocation unit
1278924 total allocation units on disk
1273801 allocation units available on dsk.















so is my harddrive dead?

When you're installing windows xp, are you partitioning the 160 GB drive ?



If so, try to erase any partitions and do a FULL format on the complete drive. If you still get that message, try to format another hard drive with the same exact hardware components (expect the same hard drive of course) and see if you still get that message.



Almost always when windows cannot format a disk, there is something wrong with it.

your disk is probally bad