Could it be possible to put this hitachi hd into an enclosure and connect it via USB to a mac and run disk utility on it, an enclosure would be cheap... And I could just use a mac on display somewhere. A computer shop I call said they'd run a diagnostic on it for $70, even after mentioning it was a hackintosh he said bring it in. I'm thinking that maybe what they'd do for $70, which I could do for cost of enclosure.