Hello, I have a compaq laptop (I know, compaq, it was a gift), that died on me a while back and I'm getting around to fixing. I got a blue screen everytime I booted up, saying something about XP files being corrupted, so I attempted to reinstall and format my Laptop Hard Drive. It hangs up at 20% everytime I do a quick format. It also instantly goes to 20% and pauses, or freezes. I never let it run for more than 30minutes at 20% so I'm not sure if its frozen. When I tried to regularly format it , it goes to 4% and does the same thing.
My question is, is it possible to format it using my PC? Being that I have other software besides the XP install disc to format it with. And if I can format it on my PC would it be worth it, or is my Laptop HDD more than likely fried?
