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Can't Install Windows 2000

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Here is the problem:

In school, we have a workstation (PII 450, 256MB ram, 1 8GB SCSI Drive, 1 40GB ATA), and we upgraded all the workstations in there to Windows 2000 from NT4 without a glitch...but this computer is giving us problems. Once i start a fresh-install of Windows 2000, it formats using NTFS, it finishes, and then at the end it just says "cannot format the drive." The same error happens on both the IDE and the SCSI disk! I switched harddrives with a new one, switched the SCSI card, and no go!

I have tried:
1.) Formatting on another system, but when I bring the harddrive into this system, the same error message comes up
2.) Used FDISK to delete MBR.
3.) Formatted the SCSI thru the SCSI Card Bios (Symbios Utility)

One time I went thru setup and it crashed after it came to configuring time, region, etc...another time it gave me a "Stop Error(BSOD)", and finally one time, the copying of files from CD during setup was complete, and then it restarted, and right after the BIOS screen i got "Cannot boot"... These things happend randomly!

I have not tried:
1.) Switching mobo
2.) Ghosting from a fully working system(there are 3 of the exactly same systems!)

Does anybody have any other solution?

-Satish
 
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