K8N Neo 2 Platinum: having problems formatting NEW SEAGATE 200 GB SATA Drive.

Ok..
I can see the SATA drive during Windows Installation and in Windows XP... but I can't format it.
It freezes up at 20% when I do quick format.. and when I did a normal format it Windows gave me a error saying something about drive may be damage or installed wrong..
Right now I'm running IDE0 Master (Western Digital 200 GB HD) IDE1 Master (Toshiba DVDROM), then the Seagate drive in SATA0.
I see the drive in bios, windows, and windows install...
I've disconnecting my ide drive completly & disabled ide in bios... still won't format properly
i've also tried the f6 and loaded the 'nforce 3 SATA RAID Driver' disc that came with the motherboard and it still froze..
right now i am on my normal bootup (ide wd hd), windows xp detects the hard drive in windows.. i see it in disk management.. i can delete/make partitions.. but i just can't format it.. gaaaaaaah
any help would be much appreciated.

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Originally posted by cfeedback
In years past I was able to install XP w/o a SP on a large drive without any problems. The process I believe I had to take was use the manufacturer's utility to format (in this case MaxBlast from Maxtor) the drive, install Windows, immediately install SP1, and then enable 48-bit LBA via the utility (you can find a .reg file that will enable it as well). While I wouldn't recommend it I never had any problems.
Ah, you just got lucky that Windows didn't try to write something past the 137 GB point. I've always known about this, but coincidentally, this just happened to me the other day where Windows told me I had a 200 GB (186 GB really) installed and ready to go, but then a few days later I kept getting a ton of "Write Delayed" errors. I was so distracted at the time (with other issues), that it didn't occur to me what the problem was, and I ended up losing a lot of data.
Anyway, for anyone really interested in the full scoop, you can read about here in Microsoft's knowlege base.

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