This is a strange situation.

So anyways, I had Vista, 2 hard drives, one with media, the other software.

My new downloads (all of them) go to the media drive.

One day Vista crashed. After many attempts, my computer would finally read of my Vista disk to reformat. Most of the time, it would just try to load windows and crash.
Finally got it formatted and fixed it.

Couple weeks later it crashed again.

Now it wouldn't boot the vista disk at all.

I reformatted it using XP, for some reason the vista disk did not work, but it would boot the XP.
Then installed  vista, it ran fine for a week, (without my media drive connected)
after a week I connected the 300gb media drive.\

It crashed after a day...so we determined there must be a virus on the media drive wiping out the c drive. It would delete an important system file

So I was going to reformat again with XP.
It went through the whole formatting process and then rebooted like it was supposed to before windows would install.

My bios had default settings on so the full screen logo came up with the option to hit f1 for setup, or tab for post bios screen.

Normally if I just let it sit for a second it would go on.

It didn't. It basically froze. Mind you only the 120gb system hard drive was connected. I could not go to setup, it would not skip if I hit tab. I had no choice but to shut it off.

Now it will not boot at all, (unless  I disconnect my hard drive but what good does that do? It's not like I can connect it once windows setup loads. I tried in desperation, it just crashed)

Is their anyway I can force a format on this hard drive? It obviously appears so corrupted that my bios can't recognize it properly without freezing.

I dont expect much, but does anybody have a solution?