Cyclic Redundancy Check error

[Eos]

I'm not as concerned about the data, but I'd like to reformat the drive and use it again.

A right click of the drive from My Computer and clicking format did not work. Going into disk management did allow me to start a format process, but it's been going for a solid 45 minutes and I would have expected it to be done by now.

Any experience with saving the drive? At this point, I just want to use the drive.

Windows XP Pro
WD 120 SE drive

 

[Laputa]

Your drive is failing is all that I call it. Get a new drive.

 

[Miramonti]

I'm not familiar with that error on a drive, only cd's, but myself I'd try running 'chkdsk c: /r' to mark off and stop using any bad harddrive sectors. In fact I'd run that on all of the partitions.

If the drive is really bad and windows system files are corrupted, you may not be able to boot into windows again tho.

 

[Eos]

It's a backup drive, so luckily there's no OS on it with bookmarks and whatnot. I'll give that a try.

 

[Eos]

Boot drive not readable...