Won't let me format

[TheNemesis]

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.

 

[GregMal]

Are you using Fat32 or NTFS?
If it's Fat32 have you tried booting with a Win9* emergency
disk and reformatiing?
Greg

 

[TheNemesis]

It's NTFS

 

[rutchtkim]

I've never tried this, but people told me this. If you have a linux box, try to hook it up to that and you may be able to copy files over that way.

 

[MK666]

If the missing file was called NTLDR or sth. like that you have to run fdisk /mbr and format. If the error is still there then you can try to install Win from another CD (a friend´s one perhaps...).

 

[Slikkster]

Please post the EXACT error message you are getting...word for word, letter for letter. It's much, much easier to troubleshoot that way.