When I try to boot up from the Win 2K disk and format a particular partition I recieve the following error message: "Setup was unable to format the partition. The disk may be damaged. Make sure the drive is switched on and properly connected to your computer. If the disk is a SCSI disk, make sure your SCSI devices are properly terminated. Consult your computer manual or SCSI adapter documentation for more information." Should I run scan disk to see what the problem is???

Try to run the formating Wizard again.. shut down the comptuer..wait for few sec..restart the computer and try again.. didn't work...check the cable or in the bios that (del key) to see if the system see the hard drive or not

same thing with me for window xp when I format with ntfs, however I can format with fat 32. and the motherboard antivirus detect a boot virus in the hard disk? however when I try to install antivirus programs (norton and v3 pro) I can't not install and update them. any help please

Same thing is happening to me when trying to do a fresh install of 2000 or XP. Formatting with FAT32 instead of NTFS doesn't help either. Ben R, did you find a solution in the end? Does anyone know of a solution for this?

I'm having the same problem with a fresh install of both XP and 2K pro. My BIOS does see the correct H/D size and all. If anyone finds the fix please email: robertqh@bellsouth.net

I was having the same problem. Today I created a smaller installation partition and chose to format it FAT...after the installation was complete - I defragged the harddrive because 2000 installs terribly fragmented. I then converted the c drive to NTFS from the command prompt...then created NTFS partitions thru disk manager. If anyone understands why this happened or comes up with a better resolution feel free to e-mail me at mheck@davidclark.com. The only thing I could think of was the interrupt 13 the system sends to check for the appropriate system files (would explain large disk)- but that does not explain the formatting problem.