Install of Win200 pro on laptop problems

Hello, I am trying to install Windows 2000 pro on a laptop I just made for my mom. Here's a little info on the laptop. It's a ECS I-Buddie 4, P4 1.6 Ghz, 40 GB HDD, 512 MB pc2100 DDR, and the laptop has video, sound, nic, modem all integrated. The only expansion ports are 4 usb ports and a firewire port. This laptop had no floppy drive, and a DVD rom. My problem is that I've never installed just from a cd before, and I've also never installed 2000 clean, just upgraded to it. So, I changed the bios to boot from cd, then hdd. I inserted the win200 cd, and then it booted from it. I had to wait a while to let it all load, and then the windows installer started. So far everything worked fine. My HDD is brand new (this is where the problem seems to exist.) Now, the install brings me to an Fdisk-like utility. It tells me to choose wich file system I want to use by using the up/down arrows, but all I can choose it NTFS, it then tells me I have to format my partition. It then took forever and attempted to format my hdd, but it had somesort of problem with it. I can't remember exactly what it was, but I cannot format my partition. I would really appreciate some help, or if someone could tell me where to go to seek assistance. Thank you

 

thanks for all the help.....punks

I just found out that when win2k installs, it first uses a fat filing system no matter which one you tell it to, then it later convrts it to ntfs. So, when I install off of the win2k cd, I have to make a partition less than 4GB in order to be able for the fat file system to recognize it and format it. I'm sure lots of you knew this, so thanks for not giving me any help.