error (257)

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The 200 gig drive is probably going t take some special setting in your BIOS, that the other drive did not need.

137 gig limit - How to enable 48-bit Logical Block Addressing support for ATAPI disk drives in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;303013

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Mark L. Ferguson
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http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
marfers notes for windows xp http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/chatNotes.htm
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"wesreeves" <wesreeves@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:B2E44A79-5DFA-4BB8-9158-5A81ED73EEAA@microsoft.com...
>I think that I posted this to the wrong group. Anyway, I just built a new
> computer because my old harddrive died. I am trying to install XP now.
>
> When I boot from my XP CD, I get the windows setup screen, and it loads all
> it's files. Then I get the error: "An unexpected error (257) occurred at
> line 5118 in d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\setup.c. Press any key to
> continue." When I hit a key, about a minute passes then the Welcome to Setup
> screen comes up. I accepted the license agreement, then it says it can't
> find a previous version of windows so I put in my win98 cd. It accepts that
> and then says that it found "32248 MB Disk 0 at Id 0 on bus 0 on atipi [MBR],
> partition1 [unknown]. I delete the partition so it will create a new one.
> This is a 200 Gig Seagate model ST3200822A drive. But at this point, I don't
> care what size it says it is. I just want to get this system up and running.
>
> I hit enter, and use the default NTFS file system formatting. It takes
> about 5 minutes to format. Then I get the message: "Setup was unable to
> format the partition. The disk may be damaged." It also says the usual -
> make sure power is connected, etc. It tells me that I must select a
> different partition for Windows XP. I have tried a different harddrive with
> the same results.
>
> Any suggestions would sure be appreciated....
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Wes-
>
>