cannot format harddrive during installation

Hi
I have a brand new 300GB Maxtor drive in a fresh system for Vista Testing.
The setup fires off just fine and reaches the "Where do you want to install windows" section of the installation, here the hard drive is shown.
As the drive is brand new selected create partition and selected all of the drive, when this was done the "format" option appeared as expected.
When format is selected the system goes to the hour glass, the hard drive light is on solid as if it is formatting the drive.
However after a few minuets the hour glass goes and you still cannot select "next" only refresh/delete/format.
The drive is standard IDE and is set to master. No other devices on the same cable This is the only hard drive in the system Latest BIOS on motherboard (2006) Vista Build 5308
Any Ideas?

What kind of problem do you have that you have to post the same question 3 separate times with 3 separate subjects?
Is this ignorance and stupidity in action?

SuperPlay wrote:

Hi
I have a brand new 300GB Maxtor drive in a fresh system for Vista Testing.
The setup fires off just fine and reaches the "Where do you want to install windows" section of the installation, here the hard drive is shown.
As the drive is brand new selected create partition and selected all of the drive, when this was done the "format" option appeared as expected.
When format is selected the system goes to the hour glass, the hard drive light is on solid as if it is formatting the drive.
However after a few minuets the hour glass goes and you still cannot select "next" only refresh/delete/format.
The drive is standard IDE and is set to master. No other devices on the same cable This is the only hard drive in the system Latest BIOS on motherboard (2006) Vista Build 5308
Any Ideas?

Please note Rick
I am an IT Professional working in a real live environment and have been for many years! This is not ignorance and defiantly not stupidity in action.
The fist two times I posted, the message "PAGE NO LOGER EXSITS" was displayed on the official “Microsoft Page not found/ Search Microsoft page” when this happed I had the "Notify me of responses" check box selected. Only on the 3rd attempt when I de-selected the Notify me of responses" did I get the message "your post will be active" message.
So please before you jump to conclusions and call real IT Professionals ignorant and stupid, please reflect on yourself for a moment, to see where you stand.
I do not normally justify my actions to negative, unhelpful and lame posters; however I want to make aware to the genuine users of the forum of how you respond to real forum posters who understand technical issues when a genuine error occurs.
"Rick" wrote:

What kind of problem do you have that you have to post the same question 3 separate times with 3 separate subjects?
Is this ignorance and stupidity in action?

SuperPlay wrote: Hi
I have a brand new 300GB Maxtor drive in a fresh system for Vista Testing.
The setup fires off just fine and reaches the "Where do you want to install windows" section of the installation, here the hard drive is shown.
As the drive is brand new selected create partition and selected all of the drive, when this was done the "format" option appeared as expected.
When format is selected the system goes to the hour glass, the hard drive light is on solid as if it is formatting the drive.
However after a few minuets the hour glass goes and you still cannot select "next" only refresh/delete/format.
The drive is standard IDE and is set to master. No other devices on the same cable This is the only hard drive in the system Latest BIOS on motherboard (2006) Vista Build 5308
Any Ideas?