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Edgedamage:
I just built a system and the problem I am having is the system wont write to HDD windows starts by saying "copying files needed for setup" and then it asks for a restart and when I do. It  goes through the same thing over and over. I tested three HDD's and 4 IDE cables. now mind you the system is running a 230watt power supply. the main board is a ECS with a pro 2800+ cpu on board.

Sephroth57:
well im not sure if it has anything to do with it but that power supply is really small for that system. athlons are known to use a little more then pentiums also, i use a 420W on my 2000 athlon XP
SirPeale:
Yeah...that power supply, man...um...
DeathMonk:
Did you check to see if the HDD is set to "Active" in fdisk?  That's what it sounds like to meh.
Edgedamage:
Well the bios says to hit f-3 in setup and when I do it finds the hdd instantly. Stupid system is at work now but I will test with a 450 watt power supply. Oh yah also this main board also has the p-4 cpu power plug which I am using. So is it possible that the HDD is going through the motions but there is not the power needed to lay down the mag info on the platters. Also when I swapped out the HDD with another it was reading what was on the HDD but when I did a format and then did Fdisk. And started to install win2k it said "hdd unfromatted or damaged" So I did a format with win2k
it said after format was at 100% "unable to format" So I removed all cables and double checked everything. And gave win another try it did the format and started to "copying files needed for setup" and it asked for a restart so I did. After the restart win started the whole "copying files needed for setup" again. Also the hdd is set to active.
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