Disk Utility Secure Erase is Stalling and filling Disk

[orbitalpunk]

Would anyone know why the erase feature of disk utility would Stall and cause osx to warn me of my disk being full? Im doing a 7 pass erase and when i do it off the bootable DVD it stalls at 14 hours. I left it on over night and never changed. I also tried just isntalling osx and erasing free space and after about an hour or so osx will warning me my disk is full when in fact im only using 3 gigs for the OS only. its an imac core 2 duo.

Thanks for any help

 

[mad jew]

Sounds like a dodgy hard disk. Might be time to take it back to Apple for a replacement.