I/O error in disk utility during Kalyway 10.5.2 installation

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Hi everyone. Need some help with my hard disks... been trying for more than 10 hours now... can't find an answer in the forumsMy system: AMD 64 3500 single coreASUS A8N SLI SE MB2 GB RamASUS NVIDIA 7900GT 256 MBHARDDISKS (all IDE) (All previously once installed in a windows systems as backup drives - no prior installation of windows OS on them)-Seagate 40GB-Hitachi 120GB-Maxtor 80GBI initially followed this guidehttp://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...lway_AMD_10_5_2I follow it religiously with no problems until the end of the boot. Harddisk and DVDRW are both IDE. Harddisk - primary master. DVD - secondary master. At the end of the -v boot, it states "disk0s1 I/O error"I am still able to go into the Kalyway boot screen. I open up disk utility and i try to partition the drive as a Mac OS Journaled file system but an error message pops up - I/O error. Unable to partition drive.Hence i try other partitions. The only one that works is when i do a "free space" partition, followed by a FAT32 partition. (NO I/O errors). Then I try to install, the installation gets to 30% each time and "unable to install Mac OSX on your com, Unable to install on volume/leopard"Next step - I try to go into -v -s (verbose/safe mode)I use fdisk /dev/disk0s1 = BAD SUPER BLOCK. MAGIC NUMBER WRONG. THIS HAPPENS FOR ALL THE HARDDISKS WHICH I HAVE TRIED. But these hard-drives work fine on windows. I plug them into another windows system and they work fine..I try pdisk - it states I/O errorI try fsck -fy - it states I/O error. BAD SUPER BLOCK. The only time when there was something different was when I used a windows xp boot CD to format the IDE drive into a NTFS format. When I used the kalway boot CD - the last message on the -v screen was journalled system possible or successful. NO I/O error was indicated.Then when i went into disk utility once again i formatted it as free space, then when i tried to format it as a MAC Extended Journaled system, I/O error. Does anyone have the same problem? Is there a way to prepare a previously windownised IDE HD to become a MAC ready HD? Disk utility and -safemode are unable to format/partition the drive due to I/O error + BAD SUPER BLOCK/MAGIC NUMBER WRONG errors. fsck also doesnt work. Please help! Thanks in advance!One thing i may have missed out.My BIOS is 0309. I disable all SATA ports. RAID is disabled. ACPI is on S1 and S3AC97 sound is enabledAll the other settings are on default settings