Setup claims harddrive damaged when I know it's not!

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Please help.
I'm installing Win2k on a Syntax SV266A motherboard with
an Athlon and 256MB RAM with a new Hitachi 82.3 GB IDE HDD.

I delete all partitions, and setup formats the HDD with
the NTFS file system, but once it's done formatting (it
goes all the way to 100% complete), it says "Setup was
unable to format the partition. The disk may be damaged".

The bios supports LBA. I have tried formating through the
repair console - it says "format complete", but then when
I do a "DIR" on the drive it says there are problems.
I've run the FIXMBR, FIXBOOT, and SYSTEMROOT utilities but
nothing changes. I have tried setting the jumpers on the
HDD to Master and to Chip Select and that doesn't matter.

What is the problem? I've had this problem on 2 different
computers now.
 
You didn't mention the drive controller (possibly ultra DMA, or ATA100, or
raid, or serial ATA), but you may need to boot the Windows 2000 setup disks
or CD-Rom and *F6* very early and very important (at setup is inspecting
your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection, and select
S to specify additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to insert the
manufacturer supplied Windows 2000 driver for your drive's controller in
drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2000 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| Please help.
| I'm installing Win2k on a Syntax SV266A motherboard with
| an Athlon and 256MB RAM with a new Hitachi 82.3 GB IDE HDD.
|
| I delete all partitions, and setup formats the HDD with
| the NTFS file system, but once it's done formatting (it
| goes all the way to 100% complete), it says "Setup was
| unable to format the partition. The disk may be damaged".
|
| The bios supports LBA. I have tried formating through the
| repair console - it says "format complete", but then when
| I do a "DIR" on the drive it says there are problems.
| I've run the FIXMBR, FIXBOOT, and SYSTEMROOT utilities but
| nothing changes. I have tried setting the jumpers on the
| HDD to Master and to Chip Select and that doesn't matter.
|
| What is the problem? I've had this problem on 2 different
| computers now.
|
|
 
I think this would fix it, but the RAID controller drivers
are on a CD. They won't all fit on one diskette so I put
it on 2. When I get the disk with TXTSETUP.OEM in, it
finds the file but comes up with a script error on line
1121 in the CDROM drive (the drive with Win2K CD in it).

Any more ideas?
 
What does the manufacturer tell you to do to install this controller on
Windows NT. They MUST have a doc for this somewhere?!?! This is what must be
done.
 
Possibly somewhere here.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| I think this would fix it, but the RAID controller drivers
| are on a CD. They won't all fit on one diskette so I put
| it on 2. When I get the disk with TXTSETUP.OEM in, it
| finds the file but comes up with a script error on line
| 1121 in the CDROM drive (the drive with Win2K CD in it).
|
| Any more ideas?
|
|
 
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