setting up the W2K server

hi,

I have a pc running on winXP home edition and intend to
install w2k server into this machine but in different
partition (E:) so that i will have dual boot system.

I was prompted with message that the disk in not set
correctly and request me to reformat this partition. After
take almost 24 hrs to format the disk which is only 5GB
and ended with error message again. This time the error
message saying disk can't be formatted properly.

I simply don't understand why the format process take so
long and initially i have formatted the drive E with Disk
Management tool from XP and find no error at all.

Any suggestion?

Thanks!
Andy

AT
Sun Nov 30 18:23:47 CST 2003

Your HD is probably giving up on you! The reason for the slow format is in
that case that it tries to recover all bad sectors it find during the
formatting, and that takes time.
Make a scandisk or use a special program from the disk vendor to be certain
about what is wrong.
If you have any bad sectors after the format..Get a new HD

AT

"Andy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:090001c3b4b0$ed8de8d0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> hi,
>
> I have a pc running on winXP home edition and intend to
> install w2k server into this machine but in different
> partition (E:) so that i will have dual boot system.
>
> I was prompted with message that the disk in not set
> correctly and request me to reformat this partition. After
> take almost 24 hrs to format the disk which is only 5GB
> and ended with error message again. This time the error
> message saying disk can't be formatted properly.
>
> I simply don't understand why the format process take so
> long and initially i have formatted the drive E with Disk
> Management tool from XP and find no error at all.
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks!
> Andy