install problems XP on new HDD

[Guest]

Help please, am going crazy trying to install Win XP Home.
ECS K7S5a latest bios/AMD XP2400/ Nvidia geoforce 2/ 512 of 2100 mem/ DVD
cdrom and separate CDRW and 15Gb HDD and ADDING New 80GB HDD
The system was fine for a long time running Win 98SE until my second (D,
40GB) HDD packed up. C drive with OS still fine so changed faulty one for new
80GB.
Set as slave, BIOS found new drive,
Used win 98 startup disk to FDISK new drive as 1 created logical partition,
DID NOT format as wanted XP (NTFS) on the drive to give me fully windows
controlled dual boot machine with Win 98SE on C drive and Win XP separate on
D drive.
All seemed to be going ok until XP setup runs so far and comes back with
"error 768 at line 5199 (+ line 5182) in D:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\setup.c"
followed by a "stop:0x0000007B ( 0xF8981524,0xC0000034,0x00000000,0x00000000)
I have searched lots of helpdesks and got some tips and suggestions but none
will get me past this point.
The Microsoft site says possible virus in boot sector but full search(with
AVG) and Scandisk have found nothing and it cannot be on D: cos this is not
formated yet until XP fires up. Also the codes in the stop message are
supposed to be some help to support teams to help pinpoint trouble. ANY IDEAS
ladies and Gents?
If all else fails I shall have to just do full new XP install to new HDD and
reluctantly try to install a front end boot manager(unreliable).
As I said earlier HELP!!!! in laymans terms please as I'm nearly all techied
out now!.
Apologies for amount of detail.

 

[Bubba]

Why don't you get a low level format utility like the ones you can download
from several disk manufacturers and then start fresh with a new XP format
and install. Go into the bios and tell the computer to boot from the CD and
follow the format and install instructions on the XP CD. You want to use
NTFS not 98s file system.

 

[Guest]

You have to have a "Primnary Partition" to boot up Windows. Easiest solution:
Is start over. Boot to WinXp CD rom, install to New drive. Probably will have
to delete logical partition. USe XP CD to create partition as NTFS. DOn't
know why yuo would use WIN98 fdisk. So do new install on your new hard drive.
SEtup will create dual boot option for you. So should be able to boot to
Win98 or WinXP>

 

[Guest]

I needed to use win 98 fdisk because when i started the install it froze at
the blue XP install screen saying unable to continue as "Raw" hdd detected so
needed fdisk from somewhere to make the new HDD "visible"