are you doing this in DOS, or...? it could have a bad sector on it. you can try a full surface scan to check / fix it. it will take *ages* (days sometimes) to do in DOS tho.
how are you partitioning it? what size, is it FAT32, etc etc. it would probably best to break it down to a couple smaller partitoins instead of one 80gig one. that would make formatting faster (at least yould be able to do 1 and get an OS installed on it).
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