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Hard Drive PROBLEM!?

OK my laptop hasn’t been working for a few months now for unknown reasons. But the bottom line is: i try to reformat and stuff but it says no hard drive found so it can’t reformat. =/ If you’re wondering what happens when i boot my laptop, when I turn it on, it doesn’t go to the windows screen (where windows XP is loading) it just stays black with a white dashed line blinking int he corner. However, I am able to boot up a linux Live CD (backtrack 2 and knoppix both work) and able to go online and stuff with them. So i dunno is my hard drive broken? or still working in a way? any ideas?

Which Linux system is the best one out there on a live cd then i might go to making it my main one?

I like to play games , video edit, music all that good stuff it that helps.

now that i have ubuntu running off a live cd what are some cool stuff to do with it “the perks of swtiching to

linux?

linux live cd ………………help?

can i use a usb drive like a hard drive to save stuff when i am using a live cd.?

for example – i want to download stuff from the repositorys and download flashplayer so i can watch youtube.

does frequent formatting and changing partitions cause bad sectors in hard disk?

i used to format and change the size of partitions every month to try different flavors of linux and my hard disk developed bad sectors and i had to send it for a replacement,at the moment i am using mandriva live cd to run basic stuff as i don have a hard disk