XP setup was unable to format the partition

Wandere

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After 100% NTFS format (only 131069 meg recognized...will install SP2 later), this message appears along with "your drive may be bad, etc".

It's a SATAII drive, NF4 chipset (no drivers needed), gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9 mobo. I've got it plugged into the first NF4 port, not the Sil stuff for raid.

Throwing XP on from an ribbon-cabled Pioneer 109 DVD thingy.

I just ripped out 512 RAM to see if it was a dual stick thing...

any other ideas? About to run Hitachi's disk util from the UBCD ver. 3.3

Ouch...my head hurts...

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Wandere

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Drive fitness tests all pass! Okay, drive is recognized in Bios as 250gb....everything seems fine from a hardware perspective.

Going to run some more goofy tests in different hardware configs...if anyone has any thoughts, throw 'em in here. Windows still won't install

:)

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Bozo Galora

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bjc112

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Glad to see you took a stick of ram out... Good start..

Have you run memtest86 on the sticks? I was having a HELL of time getting XP to install before I realized it was bad memory.

Give it a shot, plus it's good to rule the ram out anyhow..

If memtest passes 10+ passes you at least know your ram is solid..

MemTest86