Windows NT and Win2k (aka NT ver 5) does not use the BIOS portion of the
computer to access the hardware while Win95/98 does. If Win2k does not load
the proper driver into memory to access your hard disk, it is possible to
get the kind of problems you are describing. What is the interface on the
drive - ATA33, ATA66? Are there special IDE drivers available for your
specific controller chip? Check the manufacturer site for driver that are
designed for use with Win2k and tell Win2k during install that you have
additional drivers to add.

Hope this may be of help.

Peter Shkabara
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I was able to fdisk and format the drive with no problems.  The problem came
when installing Win2K.  It gets to the format in NTFS portion and says the
drive cannot be formatted.  If I tell it to leave the current file system it
says setup cannot created folder WINNT.  Thinking it was a bad drive, I
reformatted in FAT32 again, then installed Win98.  It installed completely
with no problems.  So I thought I'd try installing Win2K from inside Win98.
Got through the first portion of the installation just fine.  Rebooted
automatically, and it hung up again at the reformat/convert/leave as is
section of the install.  The message is now "Drive C is corrupted and cannot
be repaired".
Charles Mims


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