Cannot Format New WD HDD

[Kurosei]

I just put together a new machine last night. The HDD is being detected, but when I go to format it with the WindowsXP setup disk, it tells me it cannot format this partition. It will actually attempt to format it, but when it reaches 100% it will give me the error. The mobo, hdd, and cables are all brand new, so I'm a bit stumped.

The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L and the HDD is a Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB.

I hope that there is just something very simple I'm missing here. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[stoner133]

You need to give us all the information on the parts your using in the system and be detailed as possible. This could be a system memory problem. For starters if your using more then one stick of memory you can try just using one in the system and see if it will then format.

 

[Kurosei]

Oddly enough, after I restarted I saw that two partitions were created with odd sizes and a portion of the disk was left unpartitioned. I deleted both of those, and just did a quick format to see what would happen. It's now allowing me to install Windows, so hopefully it was just a fluke. Thanks anyways!