windows can't find its sector during GUI setup

Hey all,
Well my recent problem is that I keep getting a Fatal Error saying it can't find sector when i enter the GUI part of the windows xp pro install. Im guessing this is either the boot sector or sector windows in installed on? BIOS recognizes the hard drive, windows recognizes the drive up until that point, I've installed my SATA drivers. I've ran checks on the hard drive itself with maxtor powermax and it checks out ok everytime.

I've reformated the drive countless times already, and thats not the problem. This ones got me good...would a bios update help at all here ? I use to get this problem before when i used quick format when i had RAID 0 on both maxtor drives cause whenever i did a full format id get a hal.dll problem (which i found out was caused by one of my brand new hd's failing). I dunno if trying to use a different O/S would work...i have 98,2k,upgrade xp home,xp pro disks. But my video card will only work on XP . If anyone has any suggestion plz lemme know...

AMD Athlon 64 3700+
OCZ 2x 512mb pc3200 400 dual-channel ram
MSI K8N neo2-F mb
MAXTOR DiamondMax PLUS 9 120GB SATA 7200RPM 8MB 9.3MS FDB
ATI Radeon 9800 pro 256mb AGP 8x

 

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Not sure how to go with this one.

I typically do not trust xp's wipe of the partitions, I typically use fdisk via floppy.

Is this a new hard drive?

Can you boot into Recovery Console and run chkdsk c: /r

Have you checked for bad sectors?

Other than that, I'd try to take the hdd back, and get a replacement.

Also, IS there a BIOS update for you MB?

 

Its a brand-new drive
I ran chkdsk /r but i did nothing
I checked the disk with maxtors test program and the drive checked out good.
I asked MSI and they do have an update for my BIOS, so i guess i'll try that next.

 

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