Hi Justin,

 

Before replacing the drive....

 

Did you allow the full "read" test to complete and only receive the one error?

 

If so, then I would suggest an alternative solution to verify whether the sector is truly bad or not.  (It may even get you booting right back up again)

 

The following link is for an application from Hitachi that will perform a scan on your drive.  When it reaches the "uncorrectable" block it will overwrite the sector which will do one of two things.  It will either recertify the location and make it good or it will reallocate and mark the location bad.  Once this is performed then the full surface "read" test will complete without error, however, Dell diags "Drive Self Tests" will actually report that the drive has failed before and not run.

 

Once the process is complete then allow Windows to attempt booting and CHKDSK will probably come up and run.  Allow it to correct any "soft errors" it encounters and hopefully everything will be back to normal.

 

 

Replace the Hard Drive

 

That one is actually for a floppy, but you go to the page and choose another option.  There is a CD image there too.

 

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

Ryan

 

Is that download an Image file? And is it a bootable CD?

 

Thanks

Dustin 

Thank you.

 

I will be trying out that solution tonight.

 

I will let you know.

 

 

Thanks

Dustin