Alright....

...I began this whole ordeal with the idea (more so, the complete knowing) that the hard drive I am working with is completely HOSED.

However, I conneted the 30GB Toshiba Hard Drive to my laptop, ran Knoppix (from CD) and proceeded to format the drive.

I ran the format with a -v so I could tell how it was doing....and WOW!

Thousands of Bad Sectors!!!

I am not expecting the format to take care of this, or should I? Is the hard drive really hosed if Knoppix can still tell that the sectors are bad?

Let me know.