Sure I am; let me say this, I still haven't replaced the drive.
Interestingly, Seatools for DOS claims, the drive is fine, I did a long and short SMART test.
The drive doesn't want to quit but those error messages don't quit either.
So theres only one thing I can try, and thats reformatting and starting fresh, perhaps it'll work otherwise I'll have to give in and finally replace it.