Bad Clusters on HD... running Win 2000?? options.? please help

[RDSport323]

Apparently, my HD has bad clusters.. It's only a year old, and i was running Windows 2000, and everytime I try booting it up, it gave me tons of errors, especially not having NTSOFKRNL.EXE or something like that.. I took the hard drive, scandisked it, and nothing was fixed... I even put the HD in another ocmputer, and tried to use Partition Magic but that didn't do anything..

Could anyone please tell me how to fix this problem? i don't want to throw away a perfectly good 20gb HD.... I dont even care if i lose 300 megs of the 2gb, I just want to salvage something.

 

[kyoshozx]

In win2k try running chkdsk.

Chkdsk /r /f

 

[GregMal]

Most harddrive companies have utilities to permanently "block off"
bad sectors. My Western Digital HD can do this.
Goto your harddrive manufacturer's web site and look for this utility.
Greg

 

[Sukhoi]

RMA the drive if it's only 1 year old. Most hard drives have warranties.