Alright, I have been trying to install Windows 2000 Pro on my box with no success. I boot up the install, and then one of a few things will happen. Either it will run into an error coping the files over, or it will finish but not be able to boot up (a file not found issue), or worse yet, it will fail trying to format the partition. I have tried formatting in NTFS and FAT with the installer and get the same results. I have even copied the entire i386 directory to the harddrive and installed from there, still won't work. My machine specs are as follows:

PIII 933MHz Coppermine
Gigabite 815E Motherboard (or something really close to this model)
384MB PC133 SDRAM (Micron Original ECC Registered)
40GB Fujitsu Hard drive
GeForce 2MX/400 32MB Video
SoundBlaster Audigy OEM

Before I go any further, this IS A LEGIT COPY. I have even tried a legit copy of XP Home (my friend brought it over as a test) and I get the same results. I'm just a LITTLE ticked, spent a lot of money for Win2k pro and it won't work. I get Linux for FREE and it works better. (It actually installs ) The funny thing is, once it formats the entire partition, at the very end when it finishes it gives me an error saying it failed to do so. I even used Partition Magic to make an NTFS partition and tried to install Win2k on there, still didn't work. Then it would give me file copy errors. (Or it can't find a file during boot-up and fail anyways) I managed to install Win2k Pro on my sisters comp as a test (before I put SuSE on instead) and it worked perfectly. I'm beginning to think that it may be my hard-drive. I searched google for a while and couldn't find anything helpful. I wonder if I can take it back for a refund... LOL, not likely.

I hope this made sense, thanks in advance!

Dave