My neighbor has a Dell Dimension E520 that was locking up frequently and at boot I pressed F12 and selected Hard Drive Diagnostics.
The report came back with WDC WD800JD-75MSA3-Fail Return code 7.
I take it that that means the hard drive might be shot or have bad sectors.
My question is can this be repaired by formatting the hard drive and reinstalling Windows?

OS= Windows Home Edition

Thanks in advance for any help.

Spike