Problem installing w2k

Hi ! When I'm installing w2k on NTFS I receive an information that Windows cannot finish formatting partition. I can only install w2k on FAT32, but system is instable. Sometimes I receive informations that windows cannot open/write some files.

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Hi !
When I'm installing w2k on NTFS I receive an information that Windows cannot finish formatting partition. I can only install w2k on FAT32, but system is instable. Sometimes I receive informations that windows cannot open/write some files. When I press Retry a few times everything is ok.
Is this problem with motherboard or something else? Is some solution without exchanging my hardware?
 
My system specification:
MB Shuttle AV49VN with VIA chipset, Celeron 2 GHz, DDR SDRAM 256 MB, HD WD 80GB, DVD-ROM Samsung, GeForce 4 MX440

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Sounds like your hard drive is having issues (or possibly your hard drive controller).
Do you have a friend with a spare small drive you can borrow? If so see if you can do an install off of that one in your PC.
 
Also you can check out Western Digitals diagnostics program. It may tell you something (of course you'll need another computer with Net access to download the lifeguard tools).
 
http://support.wdc.com/download/