Hey man thanks for the reply .i would get back sooner but had to take apart the puter to get the hard drive name it a quantum fireball ST or somethin but its nmade in japan sothats good .
whats a partitioning software ....dont think i knw that.
can I look it up in google?
wait thes more numbers on this thingy ......says ST serries 3.5 themwhole bunch of little teeny number
Can google fix the bad block sector, i have that.
thanks for the help so far.