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2k won't let me format.

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TheNemesis

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I recently reformatted and reinstalled Windows 2000, just because it was getting kinda slow and I hadn't done it in a while. Everything went fine, and was pretty fast. I get everything installed and I shut down for the night. I go to use it when I got off from work today, and it went to boot up and it took forever, and then told me that some file was damaged or missing, and that I needed to replace the file. I used my Win 2k CD to boot up, and then tried to repair it, no avail. Then it takes me to some sort of command prompt, and I try to format. It brings up all the format stuff but it does not get past 0%, so I rebooted and tryed to have it reformat through the Win2k bootup thing, also gets stuck on 0% and I leave it for a few hours and it says that the disk is damaged. What do I do now? I would try to fdisk or something but I have some mp3 files that I reallly don't want to lose, on another partition. Any suggestions would be appreciated, TIA.
File system is NTFS, btw.
 
Edit: Read your whole post, try downloading the disk checking utility from the manufacturer of your hard drive. Run that to see if the drive is dying. I had a similiar situation but when installing Windows it would "fail" to load a whole bunch of files. It turned out to be the drive (well when I replaced it problem left.) As far as the MP3's if it turns out the drive is bad than buy a new one, partition it like your current drive and ghost over the old MP3 partition to the new equivelant on the new HD.
 
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