setup fails partitaion format new hard drive during ins

Hi
I have a brand new 300GB Maxtor drive in a fresh system for Vista Testing.
The setup fires off just fine and reaches the "Where do you want to install windows" section of the installation, here the hard drive is shown.
As the drive is brand new selected create partition and selected all of the drive, when this was done the "format" option appeared as expected.
When format is selected the system goes to the hour glass, the hard drive light is on solid as if it is formatting the drive.
However after a few minuets the hour glass goes and you still cannot select "next" only refresh/delete/format.
The drive is standard IDE and is set to master. No other devices on the same cable This is the only hard drive in the system Latest BIOS on motherboard (2006) Vista Build 5308
Any Ideas?

What kind of problem do you have that you have to post the same question 3 separate times with 3 separate subjects?
Is this ignorance and stupidity in action?

SuperPlay wrote:

Hi
I have a brand new 300GB Maxtor drive in a fresh system for Vista Testing.
The setup fires off just fine and reaches the "Where do you want to install windows" section of the installation, here the hard drive is shown.
As the drive is brand new selected create partition and selected all of the drive, when this was done the "format" option appeared as expected.
When format is selected the system goes to the hour glass, the hard drive light is on solid as if it is formatting the drive.
However after a few minuets the hour glass goes and you still cannot select "next" only refresh/delete/format.
The drive is standard IDE and is set to master. No other devices on the same cable This is the only hard drive in the system Latest BIOS on motherboard (2006) Vista Build 5308
Any Ideas?

Please note Rick
I am an IT Professional working in a real live environment and have been for many years! This is not ignorance and defiantly not stupidity in action.
The fist two times I posted, the message "PAGE NO LOGER EXSITS" was displayed on the official “Microsoft Page not found/ Search Microsoft page” when this happed I had the "Notify me of responses" check box selected. Only on the 3rd attempt when I de-selected the Notify me of responses" did I get the message "your post will be active" message.
So please before you jump to conclusions and call real IT Professionals ignorant and stupid, please reflect on yourself for a moment, to see where you stand.
I do not normally justify my actions to negative, unhelpful and lame posters; however I want to make aware to the genuine users of the forum of how you respond to real forum posters who understand technical issues when a genuine error occurs.
"Rick" wrote:

What kind of problem do you have that you have to post the same question 3 separate times with 3 separate subjects?
Is this ignorance and stupidity in action?

SuperPlay wrote: Hi
I have a brand new 300GB Maxtor drive in a fresh system for Vista Testing.
The setup fires off just fine and reaches the "Where do you want to install windows" section of the installation, here the hard drive is shown.
As the drive is brand new selected create partition and selected all of the drive, when this was done the "format" option appeared as expected.
When format is selected the system goes to the hour glass, the hard drive light is on solid as if it is formatting the drive.
However after a few minuets the hour glass goes and you still cannot select "next" only refresh/delete/format.
The drive is standard IDE and is set to master. No other devices on the same cable This is the only hard drive in the system Latest BIOS on motherboard (2006) Vista Build 5308
Any Ideas?

Have you tried alternative methods of installing such as using Virtual Drive software such as Daemon Tools or NERO Image drive? Have you tried extracting the contents of the ISO to a folder in an existing install of Windows, and launch setup from there?
Try reburning the ISO at a low speed, 2x recommended, also do a CRC check on the ISO to find out its integrity. Nero MD5 Verifier is a recommended choice. If setup still fails, its likely a bad download.
I use the one from Ahead Nero http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/eng/Nero_MD5_Verifier.html
Here are the MD5/CRC values for x86 or x64 depending on which every ISO you downloaded:
x86 - File Size = 3.12 GB (3,355,598,848 bytes) - CRC Value = 0x67E089E0 - MD5 Value = 0E733AB1A8E8FF9A8684FD3639332773 x64 - File Size = 4.01 GB (4,309,368,832 bytes) - CRC Value = 0x48697711 - MD5 Value = E43502D0A15EADD551119D5639859E04
Paste the MD5 Checksum for either x64 or x86 depending on which one you want check in Step 1, Step 2 - Browse to where you stored the ISO on your drive and open it and it will automatically start the varification process and generate the has in the third field, if it matches Step 1, then you are safe. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
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Hi
I have a brand new 300GB Maxtor drive in a fresh system for Vista Testing.
The setup fires off just fine and reaches the "Where do you want to install windows" section of the installation, here the hard drive is shown.
As the drive is brand new selected create partition and selected all of the drive, when this was done the "format" option appeared as expected.
When format is selected the system goes to the hour glass, the hard drive light is on solid as if it is formatting the drive.
However after a few minuets the hour glass goes and you still cannot select "next" only refresh/delete/format.
The drive is standard IDE and is set to master. No other devices on the same cable This is the only hard drive in the system Latest BIOS on motherboard (2006) Vista Build 5308
Any Ideas?