Reformatting HD and killing it

MrsTinks

As far as I am aware it's toast I'm afraid... I would say that given the problems you already had I wouldn't have been eager to use it myself. Once you get a fair amount of bad sectors it's really a sign of a HDD on it's way to the eternal place where they go (where-ever that is) and I would start looking for a replacement - on the other note then to be honest it might be worth buying a low spec newer machine - especially as I think all you'll need is the tower. PC-world sometimes have some decent reductions to clear if you have a nose

lon_don

I think you're right... I guess the disk has suffered from catastrophic physical hardware failure when OH brutally cut off the power, so now there is nothing that software could do to salvage it..
Cheers and thanks to all for your suggestions & comments.