WIN2K Upgrade

[jrenna]

I have a system that has WINME as the operating system, on a 6.4GB Fat 32 partition. I try to install Windows 2000 by deleting the partition and creating a new partition (clean install), but when Windows 2000 asks me to format the new partition, either Fat 32 or NTFS, the format always fails at the end. The message is that the hard drive partition is corrupt and cannot be formatted. I have checked the drive using Western Digital drive checking software and it is fine. The drive is a W.D. Hard drive. Anyone have any idea what gives here?

Thanks.:disgust:

 

[EHobaX]

Fdisk and format using a Win98 boot disk. If that doesn't work, you may have a bad HD.

 

[Thor86]

Delete all the existing partitions and try re-creating them after booting from CD and then try and format the partition you want the OS installed on.

 

[jrenna]

I used a brand new, out of the box hard drive and used FDISK to create a partition and FORMAT to format the drive with FAT32. When I go to install Win2000, it recognizes the partition, asks me how I want to format the partition, (keep it at FAT32 or format it to NTFS). I have tried both and still get the same message. After format reaches 100%, it says format can't complete, partition may be corrupted. Anybody know what I may be doing wrong?

P.S. I am able to load WINME on this drive.

 

[MisterMe]

I would use that WDdiag software again and choose the "write zeros" to drive option. This will completely blank the drive out. At this point I would boot off the Win2k CD. Leave the HD blank with no partition on it. When Win2K setup asks where you want to install Win2K to, choose the free space that represent the new drive...if it fails after this then I would be concerned about the hardware. does the controller on your motherboard need a "3rd party disk controller" driver installed during the firt few screens of setup? Good Luck!