Win Me like systems prior to XP SP1 does not like large hard disks and
can't access beyond 128GB as they don't support 48 bit LBA addressing
however you should be able to install into an 8GB active primary partition
so am not sure as to the problem.

KB271240 - "Windows Millennium Edition Setup.txt File Contents"
(http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=271240) has this to say about your SU
0013 error:
"Message SU0013
--------------
To set up Windows Me, your startup drive must be an MS-DOS
boot partition. If your startup drive is formatted as HPFS
or NTFS, you must create an MS-DOS boot partition before
running Setup. For more information about creating an
MS-DOS boot partition, see your computer documentation.

You may also receive this error if you have third-party
partitioning software, such as EZ drive or Disk Manager,
installed. If you do, restart your computer and run Setup
from an MS-DOS command prompt. For more information, see
"Installing Windows ME from MS-DOS."

Your XP Upgrade CD.
There is nothing to stop you using this to clean install XP however since
it is an upgrade CD during the installation you will be asked to insert
your Win Me CD to confirm your eligibility to be using an upgrade CD.
--
Mike Maltby



Gary wrote:

I purchased a new 250 GB WD hard drive to put in a "new" computer, so
I have no OS installed. I have a Gigabyte MB (7s748) that I believe
has ATA 100 onboard and the cpu is an Athlon XP 2600+. The BIOS
reads the drive as LBA 250 GB, ATA 100. I am unable to install Win
ME (off CD) from DOS using a Win ME boot disk after getting the hard
drive partitioned and formatted. First I tried using WD's Lifeguard
utilities. I set an 8 GB primary and the rest of the partitions at
30 GB (all FAT 32). When I tried to install Win ME, it went through
the getting ready bar (got to 100%) and then gave me the Message SU
0013 error and failed. I tried other combinations but got the same
result every time. A Microsoft's ME read me said it could be the
result of using third party software, so I wiped everything and tried
FDISK and FORMAT. I again tried several combinations. Same result,
only these times no message came up, setup just stopped (at the same
place). In all cases FDISK has apparently seen all the partitions,
primary (says it is active), secondary and logical drives (although
it says the primary is, for example, 8 GB it then says the total is
24 GB; while it also tells me the logical are 30 GB each) and scan
disk says everything is OK just before going into set up. What is
going on? I have the upgrade to XP, but that won't work in DOS, so
I have to get ME up and running. Please help me out with some
suggestions (discovered solutions would be even better), I am at my
wit's end.