Hard Disk formatting Problem

You can use c:>fdisk/mbr ( in dos mode )
Try to partition in dos mode
And format in dos mode,

need to format drive, if error persist hard drive is damaged.

ok insert the disk shut down the computer .
restart it may ask if you want to boot from cd push any button.
follow the on screen prompts.
job done takes about an hour.

> formatted my HD

This deleted 99% of the files on the disk-drive.

> Primary IDE Master: NONE
> Primary IDE Slave: SP0822N

Good. Your motherboard has detected ONE disk-drive.

Do you have just one connected disk-drive on your PRIMARY channel, or do you have two connected disk-drives (via the 2 connectors on the one ribbon-cable on the PRIMARY channel) ?

If you have two drives connected via one ribbon-cable, you MUST set the 'master/slave/cable-select' jumpers on BOTH disk-drives, to identify which of the two will be the 'master' and which will be the 'slave'.

Also, check that the 'second' disk-drive is getting electrical power.

> NTLDR MISSING

Like I said, you deleted 99% of the files, including the 'NTLDR' file.
Your computer is trying to "boot" from the 1% of the files that still exist on the disk-drive, but cannot find the now-deleted file.
Perfectly normal, given that you have formatted the disk.

Hi,

You can format Hard Disk using FDISK command from Windows CD or you can download any Disk Management tool from the web site or the company provided software.

Thanks and regards,

Anil.B.R

IT IS NORMAL FOR THE HARD DRIVE TO BECOME VERY HOT WHILE WORKING. I WOULD SUGGEST YOU TO CHANGE YOUR RAM ONCE AND TRY. HANGING ISSUES ARE MOSTLY RELATED TO RAM.

You may have the hard drive partitioned into two or more partitions.
Delete all the partitions and create a single partition and then format this single partition on the hard drive.

If this is an old drive I can't help you, I need more info but if it is new you need to create a partition with a 3rd party partition creater.

Here's a long list of samsung service centers in kolkata. When you click each one, you'll get the details.

HTH,
Regards,
Deboo

Most likely drive has firmware corruption. Here's some more info.