Blue blank screen when formatting Windows XP

Hello everyone!
My computer crashed so I had to obtain Windows XP bootable CD. My problem however is that at the boot up format stage, after the initial message about whether or not to hit any key to boot from CD, a message momentarily displayed which states windows is checking the configuration, and then suddenly disappeared. The next minute everything becomes blank, no pointer, no cursor, Nothing, and it stays that way. Any idea what I should will be appreciated.

 

Thanks alot PeteC for ur interests. I am going to take a look at Disc Diagnostic Software you mentioned. I however would like run over the initial problems like u requested.
The crash happened when windows wouldnt boot. At start up, I started to have the following error message. error (0xc0000005), The application failed to initialize properly, click OK to terminate operation.
I sought information on how to fix, but all advice was that disc should be formatted. Initially, I could use the same bootable CD, but then I chose to repair instead of formatting outrightly. Just when I had thought I had the problem under my belts, at the same I could boot normally, I was asked for administrative password. I tried troubleshooting with the normal procedure of booting through CD, to remove or change administrative password. But then I still couldnt log on even with my new password as I kept getting an error message about "the domain you are trying to access does not exist ". This led me to want to format the drive fresh. Now I tried to format, however, it wouldnt take me past the stage I mentioned in my original post-Blue blank screen when formatting Windows XP.

 

Problems persist. Any more ideas?

 

Thanks Petec,
I attempted downloading some disk diagnostics software (e.g. sdiag_23.zip 359KB) from another computer since mine's crashed as suggested by you. I however noticed that since the soft wares are in exe. form, they can therefore be used only on the computer in which they were downloaded. As you will recall, my computer is down, and I was in the process of formatting when I discovered it wouldn't get past the initial stages with the windows XP bootable CD. This is my problem.

 

Model No is: 24-53242-xx R. Product name is: Momentus 5400.3
Product by Seagate.
Serial Number: 5LZ1PQ2C

 

Product by Seagate.
Product name: Momentus 5400.3
Model No. 24-53242-XX R
SERIAL NO. 5LZ1PQ2C
PN: 98113E-308

I hope this is helpful, thanks a millions times in advance.