Hard drive rescue

I've recently switched to Macs from that other operating system and, as such want to sell my old PC.
After reading many positive accounts, I used a utility called dban (dban.org) to securely wipe both the drives in the machine (1x80GB, 1x120GB). Since doing that however, neither drive will show up when I reboot the PC (meaning I can't format them to reinstall XP). When I pop them in my firewire enclosures, neither will show up under "My Computer" on other XP machines either.
So to the Mac...
I read somewhere that Disk Utility is good at rescuing this sort of thing, so I thought I'd give it a go. I put the 80GB in my FW enclosure and, wahey, it popped up on the desktop.
"Right then," I thought "I'll use Disk Utility to reformat the drive just to be safe."
That was over an hour ago.
The drive has just been whirring away, accompanied by the beachball in Disk Utility (which Force Quit says is not responding). Eveery 15 minutes or so it gives a little chirrup of activity, then goes back to whirring again.
My questions, I suppose, are:-
1) Is the drive dead?
2) Is Disk Utility supposed to go into a beachball frenzy and, if so, how long is it supposed to take to erase/partition this drive?
3) Anybody got any other ideas? I tried DiskWarrior v3, bujt it can't even see the drive.
All suggestions greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

1. You wrote: "Just read through the link you posted. Does what it says also apply non-startup disks as well?"By "non-startup disks" I presume you mean disks on which Mac OS X is not installed, i.e. non-bootable disks or data-only disks/volumes.
Only Steps 1 and 2 of the Procedure would apply to a non-startup disk. For a non-startup disk, substitute the volume in question for "Macintosh HD" in those steps.
The rest of the advice re: steps if Disk Utility cannot repair the disk, such as resorting to third-party disk utilities, would apply to non-startup disks.
2. You wrote: "I'm still new at the Mac thing and I REALLY don't want to fudge my main drive."Since you're new to Mac, you'll find my "Learning About Mac OS X" FAQ helpful: it has a number of resources that you will find useful in getting up to speed, such as books, online training, and more.
Good luck!
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