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Can't install Win2k on 250GB HDD

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Bulldozer2003

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Just before Win2k setup loads completely I get a message that says "Disk I/O Error 00008001" However, setup still continues. I get problems when I try to format the partitions I created with cfdisk in Linux. I've tried NTFS and FAT, setup formats the partition, takes about 30min to get to 100% then tells me that it could not format the partition and I should try a different partition. I have even tried the delete/create partition tool that setup has, those partirions also failed to work.
Here is my IDE channel config:
C1M: WD 250GB
C1S: WD 100GB
C2M: Maxtor 30GB
C2S: CDRW

I am trying to install on the 250GB WD drive. Unfortuneatly I have about 40GB of data on that drive in the middle of it, here are the partitioning schemes I have tried thus far (created with cfdisk from a linux boot CD, all partitions have been primary):
2 GB for Win2k
~50GB Unparitioned Space
75GB ext2 with 40GB of data
~100GB Unpartitioned Space

10GB for Linux
130 GB for Win2k
75GB with 40GB data
35GB Unpartioned (I later made this its own partition as well.

I really don't know what to do now. Do I have too many partitions? I thought the limit was 4 primary. I really only want to have 2 partitions, one small one for linux and one very big one for windows, but the data I already have on the drive is a problem. Is there any tool like partion magic I can DL and expand the data partition and create the linux partition?

Thanks guys
 
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