hi my name is floyd carlyle and i may have a help for you it's called the ultimate boot disk. it can sometime make a drive fixable and even help install an operating system you can get it from startdisk.com, however they have several versions for different oss, you also need to read all the different helps before you use it. you can copy and paste the information in wordpad,or print it out for reference. this boot disk really works most times if you use it with knowing what to do. you can partition, or fix the existing partition. i have used it and recomment it many times. some times you have to fdisk with the version of dos installed on your system. also i would like to mention the have a "free versions". PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml