HD will not format please help!!!

[Antcomp]

I have a western digital hard drive series wd2500pb. I recently took it out of 1 pc and put it in another. I use the drive for only storage.The drive is an ide drive and i combined it with the newer sata raptor drive. As soon as i tried to access my stuff i was able to, but when i tried to open a file or anything the pc would freeze and my comp would have to be restarted. i then got a blue screen saying that if i never saw this screen before i should do this and that and it went on explaining a few things basically telling me to contact someone or just restart. After a few times of this happenning my raptor drive would not load xp and the blue screen came up every time i started my pc. At this point i couldnt do much with the raptor so i used an older 80gb drive i had loaded xp on it and tried to fix my raptor drive in windows. What i ended up doing was downloading diagnostics tools for the drive and it found errors and fixed them and then the drive booted perfectly. My final problem remaining is the 1 i started out with. With the second drive i couldnt open anything unless i copied it to a different hd. so i took all my info and copied it to my os drive leaving my storage drive empty. i then tried to format and it wouldnt complete for some reason. i tried in windows and using the xp cd and nothing. i ran the diagnostics i got for the raptor drive being their both wd's but the test couldnt complete b/c of too many errors on drive so i couldnt fix the errors. now im left with nothing. I dont see how the HD could be bad b/c it did store my info before i deleted it and i then moved it to my other HD so its retaining info but has errors with opening info. Any ideas? i just want the drive to work correctly, it only about 1 year old so its not old.

 

[micker377]

Start over. Just set up (format and set as active) the SATA drive (without the IDE drive installed in the computer). It's possible that the IDE drive had an OS on it, and it conflicted with the SATA drive. See if you can get your system to run correctly with just the SATA drive. If it is OK, slave the IDE drive in another computer and make sure it has no OS on it (you can also check for virus and spyware at this time).