I have a bugger system here that refuses to completely format a primary partition with XP Home CD. After creating one single partition and choosing Full Format NTFS. It goes all the way to 100% and then tells me on a blue screen that it could not format the drive. Every time.
I’ve swapped every dern thing there is. HDD, CPU, RAM, Video, motherboard, removed PCI devices, tried a different HDD, I tried another XP Home CD, I tried using a different CD-ROM drive. Always the same thing.
One time it did format but only when I did Quick Format. It also failed other Quick Formats in the same manner. But XP was unstable and locked a lot.
It now has an ECS K7S5A, AMD Athlon 1.2, SDRAM, AGP video, Seagate HDD. I’m just stumped, I thought that dumb Shuttle AK12 MB was the problem.
I tried using the XP Home CD to format the drive on another system, it worked, but I can’t really stop the setup process to switch back to the other system, besides, I don’t feel that’s a proper solution anyway,it should work. What the heck? Any educated guesses? I’ve now changed the power supply, still no go.
