rayden9112000 0 Posted October 14, 2004 Hi this is my first post but I read theses all the time because of all the knowledgeable people here. I have a problem with a machine it is a ASUS KT333 board with AMD 2200 512mb Kingston HyperX memory 50x CDRom 16X DVD and ATI 9000 All In Wonder Radeon 60gb Western Digital Drive. It started with Win98 SE on it thought I would upgrade to WinXP Pro. I have the full OEM version started the machine off the CDRom. The CDRom and hard drive are on different channels and the onboard raid is disabled through the jumper. The bios which is the latest (just flashed) sees everything fine, when it gets to the point of the partitions it sees the raw partition and I hit enter to go ahead and install XP on that spot. It makes the partition and asks how to format, I chose quick or full makes no difference it will not format. I ran DFT and other tools on the drive all came up clean. Tried brand new 120gb WD and does same thing. Tried on built in raid adaptor does same thing. Tried manually formatting the drive in another machine with XP and disk manager worked fine. Put back in other machine it will go a little further through the install but hangs after gets done copying files to drive. I can FDISK the drive with 98 and it sees the NTFS partition and I delete it and re partition with fat 32 and format load 98, unit works fine. Tried removing all cards except video so there’s nothing else on the PCI bus, tried different memory, has 430 watt PS but there is only pocessor, board, video, memory, hd, cdrom on so I cant see power supply being an issue. I would say bad board but it works fine with 98 lol kinda pisses me off. Thanks for any help. Share this post Link to post
Daveyc 0 Posted October 14, 2004 I had a similar problem. My solution is, when I selected the new OS installation option I was then able to format the HDD. Hope this work for you also. Share this post Link to post
