Is my hard drive shot?

Question

Had an XP system that was doing a loop reboot (starting to load windows and then immediately going back to reboot over and over.) so I tried reformatting the partition with XP OS disk. It said it could not reformat the partition so I deleted the partition and tried doing a raw partition format. I got the same error message stating that the hard drive could not be formatted and to check the hard drive. I have checked connections. All is good. Do you think the hard drive is just shot?

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Yes. It should not have been possible to delete the OS partition without several warnings. You can try a format on another PC, as a slave.

Answer 2

you could verify failure by formatting from a dos boot disk if you have access to one. if not toss the drive and replace it.

Answer 3

Yea it sounds like its shot to me if it won't format.