Hard drive problem during installation

Last week I purchased one of the Western Digital 120 gb drives that was on sale at Compusa. I've been trying to install 2000 on it all week and haven't been successful. My bios detects the drive properly, I can partition and format it after booting up from a 98 disc, I can install 98 on it, but whenever I try to install 2000, it always gives me an error message saying that setup has determined the drive is corrupt or something after the part where you can change the partitions.

I've tried making the partitions in fdisk, then running 2k setup, I've tried changing the partitions in 2k setup, I've tried leaving it as one big partition and tried both ntfs and fat32 file systems and nothing works. AFter the partition information screen where it can be changed and it goes to check the drive or something, that's where the problem is. It will stay at 0% complete and a couple minutse later will come back and give the message about it being corrupt or something.

I've also booted 2k from my old drive (which had 2k on it and I've been running it for several months now) and was able to see the drive and format it and partition it in the disk manager utility and copy files to it, etc. Also, during setup, I copied the installation files from the 2k cd to the WD hard drive and have been running setup from that, but still getting the same messages.

Sorry for making a short story long. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> Anyone have any idea? I'm completely at a loss. Thanks in advance

Did you try fdisking and formatting using only the WD utility? Then install 2k without changing the partitions or format?

You could also try with a win98se boot disk, fdisk /mbr and sys c:

Only other thought would be the bios has an bootsector virus protection, disable that while loading 2K.

Final long shot, there may be a bios flash to handle large hard drives (above 75 gig)... while the bios make recognise it, it may not be controlling it correctly.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by NooNoo:
<strong>Did you try fdisking and formatting using only the WD utility? Then install 2k without changing the partitions or format?

You could also try with a win98se boot disk, fdisk /mbr and sys c:

Only other thought would be the bios has an bootsector virus protection, disable that while loading 2K.

Final long shot, there may be a bios flash to handle large hard drives (above 75 gig)... while the bios make recognise it, it may not be controlling it correctly.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes, I tried formatting and everything with the WD utility and tried installing without changing the partitions. Haven't tried fdisk/mbr but will.

I believe the bootsector virus protection is turned off but will double check. Also, I have the latest bios update for my machine (The manu. is out of business - this is a mobo a friend sold to me a couple years ago and it has worked great since I've had it - I think it was made by Visiontop or something like that, it's a S7-MVP3-HI).

Thanks for the suggestions NooNoo!

Here's an update:

After looking around Western Digital's site, I found a page talking about basically the same problem I was having, except while installing Me and 98. I tried what they suggested (disabling UDMA in the bios until it finished installing) and it worked perfectly the first time.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">After looking around Western Digital's site, I found a page talking about basically the same problem I was having, except while installing Me and 98. I tried what they suggested (disabling UDMA in the bios until it finished installing) and it worked perfectly the first time. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">-----------------------------------------------
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I had one like that. The motherboard needed a BIOS update before it would work properly.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by flyboy747:
<strong>Last week I purchased one of the Western Digital 120 gb drives that was on sale at Compusa. I've been trying to install 2000 on it all week and haven't been successful. My bios detects the drive properly, I can partition and format it after booting up from a 98 disc, I can install 98 on it, but whenever I try to install 2000, it always gives me an error message saying that setup has determined the drive is corrupt or something after the part where you can change the partitions.

I've tried making the partitions in fdisk, then running 2k setup, I've tried changing the partitions in 2k setup, I've tried leaving it as one big partition and tried both ntfs and fat32 file systems and nothing works. AFter the partition information screen where it can be changed and it goes to check the drive or something, that's where the problem is. It will stay at 0% complete and a couple minutse later will come back and give the message about it being corrupt or something.

I've also booted 2k from my old drive (which had 2k on it and I've been running it for several months now) and was able to see the drive and format it and partition it in the disk manager utility and copy files to it, etc. Also, during setup, I copied the installation files from the 2k cd to the WD hard drive and have been running setup from that, but still getting the same messages.

Sorry for making a short story long. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" /> Anyone have any idea? I'm completely at a loss. Thanks in advance</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmm sounds like the same problem I had with an 80 GB hd from WD . I finally had to partion it into 2 40gb partitions after that the HD worked fine . After speaking directly with WD I found it had something to do with the HD cache causing errors while 2000 is loading because of being so memory intensive .

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by flyboy747:
<strong>Also, I have the latest bios update for my machine (The manu. is out of business - this is a mobo a friend sold to me a couple years ago and it has worked great since I've had it - I think it was made by Visiontop or something like that, it's a S7-MVP3-HI).

Thanks for the suggestions NooNoo!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I can see a new motherboard in your very near future.