Two big hard drive problems!

[Mushrooshi]

Ok, let me start out with the first problems:

After attempting to create a bootcamp configuration, I keep having the problem to where It will attempt to verify the disk.

After repeated doing "Fsck -fy", getting my mac OS X install disk and doing Disk Utility, it still has this problem.

It will claim the free space blocks are a wrong number, and it will "repair" it, but after doing it over and over, it seems to undo itself and it seems repairing won't do squat.

I heard from one source my hard drive is "just about ready to completely fail". I have already backed it up.

My second problem is I recently partitioned a hard drive with iPartition, and now it will connect to windows, but it won't connect to my mac. Why is that?

Domo Arigatou Gozaimasu

 

[Kees Buijs]

This is the same question as entered into another thread, please only put it in one spot and maybe a moderator can merge them and remove this one (the other has some response to it already).