corrupt hard drive.. cant reformat??

[wetwillie42]

Hey everyone, Im having problems installing games on my computer. It always gives me an error saying something like `cant create such and such a file, hard drive corrupt` so I decided to reformat and get this.. I cant!! It gives me an error when I start booting from the windows CD (im currently on XP but want to reformat and install Vista) saying I have a software or hardware problem.. so I`m kind of stuck here.. anyone have a clue on what to do from here? I have two hard drives.. I was thinking maybe removing the C: and replacing it with the D: and installing the OS on it as if it was new but I dont know if that would solve the problem.. anyways, any pointers are welcome! Thanks!

 

[voyagerfan99]

What error do you get when booting to the XP CD?

If you can at least get to the first page of the XP CD boot, press R to begin the recovery manager and type "chkdsk /p" (without quotes) and see what happens.

 

[wetwillie42]

I dont even have the xp cd anymore :s... I wanted to install vista.. is there something similar to do with the vista installation?