Dead hard drive (I think)

i was downloading the single player demo of bf1942 and went off to have breakfast. came back and my computer had locked up. i was a little worried so i restarted and defragged all my partitions and either scanned them or booked a scanning on the next restart. when i restarted after having defragged the 2 partitions being scanned seemed to go okay, until right at the end when the screen just went black and screwed up. i tried restarting, i got to the welcome screen then it went black again. now i cant boot at all, although occasionally it gets to beginning to boot windows and then hangs. all this and southampton lose 1-0 in the cup final

so my question is, is this a dead hard drive? or is it something fixable?

edit: another thing i thought i should add is that once i went into the bios and altered some stuff (after it already having crapped out on me) and then when it rebooted everything was reset back to before, and i hadnt cleared the bios. only happened once though, and i spose i could have done exit without saving, although im pretty sure i didnt

is anyone gonna post anything about this or are you all deserting me?

thanks so much you unhelpful bitches

is your Hard Drive A western Digital ? i have had the same problem . it shows in bios but has error's in fdisk and windows wont show up .. HDD ERROR : 00040 or sumtihng in fdsik

no its an ibm 120gxp, which is partly why i think its a hard drive problem as the deskstars have been known to fack up. if it is it, then im gonna replace it with a wd caviar 80gb 8mb cache hd

The easiest way to approach this to dig out the IBM diags disk and run that. Be warned though, if you have anything worth saving copy it off before you start the tests.

If you can't find diag disk, try here http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

Agent is this another thing on your PC which mysteriously "dies"?

how bad do you need the attention?

I'd suggest using another drive as the primary and attempting to salvage the stuff on that one as a secondary