My dad said that he is going to help me to see if he can't fix it.
If he can fix it, that'll be great. I don't know why it would be any different for him, but you know.. whatever.

If that doesn't work, I am going to buy an enclosure so that I can take the hard drive out and transfer the files to another external drive then try to wipe it and start from fresh.
If I can't get it to wipe then I'll buy a new hard drive and have a 3rd external drive..

If it is worse than that then I don't know what the flip.. I'll just buy a second desktop and strip this down and fix it for someone else to have.