Interesting problem

OK, here is the situation. I am installing Mandrake 8.2. When the installer
tries to format hda1, I get the following message:

An error occurred
fsck failed with exit code 4 or signal 0

Obviously, something is wrong with the hard drive. My question is, is there
any way for me to get in and fix it so that I can install?
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Jim

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