New Hard Drive won't partition

[frogpatch]

Building my first computer. With no luck
850mhz. Duron processor
pc266 systemboard motherboard
30gig samsung HD
128mb ram pc133
200mhz front side bus
problem:
go into fdisk
1 create dos partition or logical dos drive (enter)
1 create primary dos partition
(enter)
? asks do wish to make maximum size (y,N)
(y)
then it says varifiing drive integrity 100%
then says must restart system for changes to take effect
I reboot and there is no partition defined
I also tried to just install windows 98 2nd edition and have windows format my HD and it says.
an error was detected while formatting your primary hard disk partition.
I also from dos Typed d:setup
and it told me.
cannot create a temporary directory
If you have hpfs or ntfs installed on your HD you will need to create an msdos boot partion to setup windows.

please help me very frustrated
:confused:

[jmatt]

Reading your post , everything seems OK , until you reboot . Leave your boot disk in & Format c:/u/c/s
When finshed , reboot to CD rom support & start your install from whatever drive your CD is on . John .

[Junky]

Hi there,

Are you double sure that the hard drive is setup correctly in CMOS.

There is a chance that it is a bad ribbon cable to the hard drive. There is also a chance that the hard drive is bad.