need help fixing dell inspirion 1100

[thekornerkids]

so i have an old laptop, its a dell inspirion 1100 that i would like to fix and use to flash ecu's with
my friend gave it to me because it had a graphics problem, windows xp showed up but it had a big black border all the way around the screen.
i thought a fresh install of windows would fix this but now i can't reinstall the xp operating system.

i thought to boot up under ubuntu, to find that it says my laptops hard disk has 39 bad sectors.
which i think is resulting in the below error code when installing windows xp.

STOP: c0000221 Unknown Hard Error
\SystemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll

so if any one can help with reinstalling windows xp and finding the black border problem around the screen, much appreciated

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[Warper243]

Hi! What i would first try is to format the harddrive, and once the harddrive is empty, install the OS. This should fix your problem if the bad sectors are responsible for this.

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[thekornerkids]

I've tried reformatting with the windows install disc but it won't reformat the drive
Ends up getting the same error half way through