Greetings all-

I have here a Gateway 400c. Just over a year old. The hard drive is acting strangely.

Windows will not boot, it just sits on the clouds screen and the hd light stays on. The hard drive continually makes a noise like its spooling up.

So I started the pc, exited in DOS mode, and ran scandisk. It said it would take 55 hours to run a surface scan.

So I exited put, and just did a dir, the PC is stuck trying to calculate free space.

Is this hd dead? Is there a way to check this thing to know for sure?

Al