I think HD is broken, is there a way to find a part of it thats not broken.

im not an advanced mac user so please dont laugh, but what i figured out is (i think) is that my hard drive is broken, first it started of with random apps just shutting down, and having the "restart" your computer sing popping out, where u cant do anything but manually turn off ur mac. I tried doing the repair disk with installer disc, all it tells me is that it could not be repaired because of an error, is there anyway to find the part of the hard drive that has the error or broken and not use it? and install the osx on the part thats still good? if not, can i get a external hard drive and install os on that and how would i do that? and how would i boot that os and not the one thats installed on my mac already if not that is there anyways to repair the disk ( im assuming that sending the laptop to apple and replacing the harddrive there would be too costly as ,i am a poor college student)
thank you
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Do you have specific evidence that the internal drive is really damaged? As I said, the drive itself could be in perfect condition and it is just the directory that is damaged which is not a physical part of the drive.
If you don't care about what is on there now you can format the drive with write zeros (once) option to check the drive condition. This will erase all data! You can then reinstall the operating system and replace any files you have. Before doing this you can copy any files you may still want on the drive, but I would not replace any guaranteed good copy with a questionable copy. Let's say you had a paper you were working on with a copy from two days ago on the flash drive and a copy from yesterday on the main drive. I'd copy the main drive version in case it works but is more up to date, but I'd still keep the old version in case the new version was corrupted. The only way to tell is to open a file and see if it looks okay.
[Formatting & Partitioning a Hard Drive in OS X - Tiger and Leopard|http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html]
[Journaling, Zeroing, Partitioning & OS 9 driver|http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=4084]
[Kappy's extensive hard drive formatting post|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8340551&#8340551]
[BDaqua's Formatting instructions|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8901255#890125 5]
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