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Hey at least I'm up a new paper weight! Plus I no longer need the hard drive. I transferred a bunch of files off of one of my other hard drives and just decided to use that, figuring the one you were helping me was a lost cause. Thank you for all of your help though. It was very much...

I downloaded and installed the Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows: http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=613&sid=3&lang=en I ran the quick test and it passed, but then when I ran the extended test on the disk it failed and gave me the above mentioned errors.

Okay so idiot I am, I installed the wrong diagnostic tool. Now I have created the disc you referred to, ran it at boot, and it said there were no problems when windows restarted. However nothing is fixed. Any new ideas?

Okay I ran the extended test, and "Test found bad sectors that may be repairable." Then when trying to repair it gave me "Error was detected while repairing bad sectors." I take it I have a new paper weight. Or is there still hope?

Cool cool. I'll do that right now and let you know. Thanks for the speedy response by the way.

Yes, it abruptly shut off. How would I go about checking the disk for errors? I honestly don't have much knowledge of computer hardware. I'm just a 20 year old geek trying to get Ubuntu installed to learn Ruby.

So let me start off by telling you how my problem started. I had formatted a hard drive using an external SATA to USB adapter, Western Digital 320Gb SATA, to exFat32 in Windows 7 on my desktop computer. I then put the hard drive in my laptop, booted it up, and proceeded to install Ubuntu using...