Im sorry for putting this hear if it doesn't belong but it is a hard drive issue.

I have a 8400 with a sata hard drive. I am wanted to reformat my computer but when i do all the nessasary procedures and click r{reformat} it says it doesnt recoqnize my hard drive. It says to check power connections and bla bla bla but my windows will still load up.  I am having problems playin a game and want to reformat asap. What the heck is going on. I have called dell and all that was accomplised after a hour on the phone was the lady telling me the windows xp disk was bad. She sent me another but still have the same problem. I am hesitent to call back since she didnt help me much to begin with... Can anyone help. Other then this problem i am still enjoying my dell but I am quickly loosing my patience.

 

 

I have also added a cd rom thinking that the dvd that i bought with it was screwing up.