Lappy HD misbehaving

[Matt]

Hello :)

I was reinstalling XP on my fathers laptop/notebook. Its realtively new, a HP Compaq nx9010. there was nothing wrong with it apart from being a very old and congested install of windows.

Booted from cd (xp pro) and because i thought there was nothing wrong with the HD i chose the "quick format" option (the one that skips chkdsk) and installed windows fine. When installing programs i was getting wierd probelms like Office install saying that it didnt have access to a directory it created.

Apon restart, during bootup, chkdsk was saying "file record segment xxxx is unreadable" and did a few other things. Basically there were major problems so i decided to reformat WITH CHKDSK and start again.

Problem is that now XP install cannot complete a format at all. And to make things worse I tried Vista, and that comes up with an error code 0x80070570 and says "windows cannot install required files. the file may be corrupt or missing... etc etc "

Me thinks the hard drive is shot :( am I correct? and is there anything I can do?

Thanks

Regards, Matt

 

[Matt]

update ---> i have run the Phoenix bios self test and the result says "#1- 07 fail" YAY!!! i know exactly what that means.... no seriously how must i know what that means? i dont see the point of error codes like that.

can anyone who does actually know how to find out what that means please help me out here.

thanks again
Matt

 

[Big B]

Off-had no. I don't know if there's a way to clear CMOS on that unit or not.
However, it may be more than just the hard drive, so you might look at cashing in that warranty.