problem installing windows xp (setup cannot acsess disk)

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for some reason it says setup can not acsess disk. doesnt tell me what to do
iether. it detects it in dos as a primary and it kinda sees it in setup.
could it be a bad hard drive? it wont run as a secondary iether and it has a
partition in it. it will show up in device manager in windows 2000 but it
will not show up in disk management or my computer.