Now I am in real trouble. Have put the Restore Disk in and formatted the drive and created a partition. After about 15 mins I get an error message saying "Windows cannot format this partition. The disk may be damaged. Make sure the drive is switched on....."

I read in a previous post from SuperSparks to download a diagnostic utility from the hard drive manufacturers website. I went to Toshiba and could not find anything. It is a Toshiba MK4019GAX. The Samsung website was no help either.

Any ideas anyone???