Cannot format harddrive during installation

[Guest]

Hi

I have a brand new 300GB Maxtor drive in a fresh system for Vista Testing.

The setup fires off just fine and reaches the "Where do you want to install
windows" section of the installation, here the hard drive is shown.

As the drive is brand new selected create partition and selected all of the
drive, when this was done the "format" option appeared as expected.

When format is selected the system goes to the hour glass, the hard drive
light is on solid as if it is formatting the drive.

However after a few minuets the hour glass goes and you still cannot select
"next" only refresh/delete/format.

The drive is standard IDE and is set to master.
No other devices on the same cable
This is the only hard drive in the system
Latest BIOS on motherboard (2006)
Vista Build 5308

Any Ideas?

 

[Rick]

What kind of problem do you have that you have
to post the same question 3 separate times with
3 separate subjects?

Is this ignorance and stupidity in action?

 

[Guest]

Please note Rick

I am an IT Professional working in a real live environment and have been for
many years! This is not ignorance and defiantly not stupidity in action.

The fist two times I posted, the message "PAGE NO LOGER EXSITS" was
displayed on the official “Microsoft Page not found/ Search Microsoft pageâ€
when this happed I had the "Notify me of responses" check box selected. Only
on the 3rd attempt when I de-selected the Notify me of responses" did I get
the message "your post will be active" message.

So please before you jump to conclusions and call real IT Professionals
ignorant and stupid, please reflect on yourself for a moment, to see where
you stand.

I do not normally justify my actions to negative, unhelpful and lame
posters; however I want to make aware to the genuine users of the forum of
how you respond to real forum posters who understand technical issues when a
genuine error occurs.