Can't install XP on new system (HDD problem?)

[Melandre]

Completed building my new system last weekend (E6400, OCZ 2G Gold,
Seagate 320G, Gigabyte GA-965P-S3). As far as I can tell, hardware
stuff seems to be working fine. But when I try to install XP, it goes
through "loading required files", full format in NTFS goes to 100% but
then at the "Please wait while setup is examining your disk", I get a
BSOD with error BAD_POOL_HEADER. Something wrong with my Seagate HDD?
When I use Seatools (diagnostic utility from Seagate) the physical
inspection of the HDD gets a PASSED but the System File structure gets
a FAILED.

The SATA2 drive seems to be connected properly. I am not trying to do a
RAID thing just one HDD in the system. Any idea what is going on and
how I can fix it? It has been a week now trying to troubleshoot this
and I am running out of ideas. Frustrating to have a brand new system
and not being able to use it! Cheers! Andre

 

[Andy]

You don't mention what things you've tried to characterize the
problem, so some things you can try are:
How large a partition are you trying to format?
In what modes have you tried running the SATA interface?

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

You don't mention what things you've tried to characterize the
problem, so some things you can try are:
How large a partition are you trying to format?
In what modes have you tried running the SATA interface?

Two questions is 'things you can try'?
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