I have a hard drive,running XP home,that won’t boot to GUI.Keeps rebooting,I tried “fixmbr” but still reboots. Get this error” Pri master HD SMART status bad,backup and replace”

Tried R restore XP,but cant remember admin password

What started this was,I was converting audio files from CD to real player MP3s
Got a freeze up and this error
"windows delayed write failed" windows/system32\config\syEventEVT., failure computer hardware or network,

I am able to boot from a live Knoppix linux CD,how can I use linux to recover,run utiliies on this drive so it boots in XP?