1. Hard Drive.
a. How does it interface to motherboard; PATA (IDE/EIDE interface) or SATA?
b. Which drive do you have; make and model name/number?
c. What is the TOTAL capacity of the drive; e.g. 80 GB?

@theripster it was Test Drive or SOMETHING i dont think it would've fixed the problem anyways it was gonna take too long since my hard drive is 400 gb so i stopped the process.

@dahlarbear
a. its a SATA drive
b. Western Digital WD4000AAJS
c. 400 GBSorry regulator...

But if you don't have the patience to let a drive diagnostics app finish and do
it
's job...and you want to keep it Top Secret we can't help those that won't help themselves.

You've been given good advice and not followed it.I have tried everything that everyone's said its just not working even xp install cds that have sata drivers slipstreamed.Use the drive manuf. FREE utilities to partition/prepare the drive for use in a PC and move on....i've tried those utilities before patio and they all come up that the DISK cant be found or inaccessible either way that dont work.Bad SATA CONNECTOR on the MBoard...
Bad Data cable on the drive...
Dead drive...

Move the drive to another machine to confirm this.well tried it on my dads computer with his cables and nothing worked so i think its a dead drive. his computer is a couple months old so his cables are somewhat better than mine, and i tend to LEAVE my computer on at night (which i know can be bad for a computer) to download stuff.Leaving a machine on does not hurt it...
Find the manuf. webpage and see what the Warranty is on the drive...you may be in Luck.good news i can get a replacement from WD.ugh this is painful using this slow laptop...I miss using my fast computer...its gonna be at least 2 to 3 weeks before my new hard drive arrives.My last one only took 3-4 days....