H/d

My other pc stopped working, it kept giving an error while booting. So I put in the Windows XP attempting to reinstall... the file system was unknown/damaged so I formatted the harddisk by plugging it in this pc as slave and then to format. Now I placed it back in the other pc, booted windows cd-rom and got to the partition phase. Made some partitions but while doing it suddenly the message 'can't read from h/d (or something similar) showed and I got a bsod...

Harddisk is fubar or am I missing something? I'm poor so I can't buy a new one :(