Setup claims harddrive damaged when I know it's not!

[Doug]

Please help.
I'm installing Win2k on a Syntax SV266A motherboard with
an Athlon and 256MB RAM with a new Hitachi 82.3 GB IDE HDD.

I delete all partitions, and setup formats the HDD with
the NTFS file system, but once it's done formatting (it
goes all the way to 100% complete), it says "Setup was
unable to format the partition. The disk may be damaged".

The bios supports LBA. I have tried formating through the
repair console - it says "format complete", but then when
I do a "DIR" on the drive it says there are problems.
I've run the FIXMBR, FIXBOOT, and SYSTEMROOT utilities but
nothing changes. I have tried setting the jumpers on the
HDD to Master and to Chip Select and that doesn't matter.

What is the problem? I've had this problem on 2 different
computers now.

 

[Dave Patrick]

You didn't mention the drive controller (possibly ultra DMA, or ATA100, or
raid, or serial ATA), but you may need to boot the Windows 2000 setup disks
or CD-Rom and *F6* very early and very important (at setup is inspecting
your system) in the setup to prevent drive controller detection, and select
S to specify additional drivers. Then later you'll be prompted to insert the
manufacturer supplied Windows 2000 driver for your drive's controller in
drive "A"

If you wait and then S to specify additional drivers, then it may be too
late as Windows 2000 Setup at this point may have already assigned the
resources your drive's controller is wanting to use.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| Please help.
| I'm installing Win2k on a Syntax SV266A motherboard with
| an Athlon and 256MB RAM with a new Hitachi 82.3 GB IDE HDD.
|
| I delete all partitions, and setup formats the HDD with
| the NTFS file system, but once it's done formatting (it
| goes all the way to 100% complete), it says "Setup was
| unable to format the partition. The disk may be damaged".
|
| The bios supports LBA. I have tried formating through the
| repair console - it says "format complete", but then when
| I do a "DIR" on the drive it says there are problems.
| I've run the FIXMBR, FIXBOOT, and SYSTEMROOT utilities but
| nothing changes. I have tried setting the jumpers on the
| HDD to Master and to Chip Select and that doesn't matter.
|
| What is the problem? I've had this problem on 2 different
| computers now.
|
|

 

[Doug]

I think this would fix it, but the RAID controller drivers
are on a CD. They won't all fit on one diskette so I put
it on 2. When I get the disk with TXTSETUP.OEM in, it
finds the file but comes up with a script error on line
1121 in the CDROM drive (the drive with Win2K CD in it).

Any more ideas?

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

What does the manufacturer tell you to do to install this controller on
Windows NT. They MUST have a doc for this somewhere?!?! This is what must be
done.

 

[Dave Patrick]

Possibly somewhere here.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


:
| I think this would fix it, but the RAID controller drivers
| are on a CD. They won't all fit on one diskette so I put
| it on 2. When I get the disk with TXTSETUP.OEM in, it
| finds the file but comes up with a script error on line
| 1121 in the CDROM drive (the drive with Win2K CD in it).
|
| Any more ideas?
|
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