finished running chkdsk:
100 percent completed.
File and folder verification is complete.
Windows is verifying free space...
Bad sectors found.ted.....
Free space verification is complete.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
32,748,528 KB total disk space.
48 KB in 1 hidden files.
48 KB in 3 folders.
2,432,512 KB in 1,333 files.
33,424 KB in bad sectors.
30,282,480 KB are available.
16,384 bytes in each allocation unit.
2,046,783 total allocation units on disk.
1,892,655 allocation units available on disk.
Some file allocation tables (FAT) are unwriteable.
but now the drive is unreadable and or unformatted to Windows. I tried using partition magic again to format fat32 but got a CRC error. So I guess I'll find instructions on how to replace a drive somewhere on this forum? any suggestions... thanks for all the feed back...