problem with 200GB hard drive

[Jim Patterson]

I am trying to install a 200GB hard drive and I can run fdisk and create 
the partition and then run mkfs.ext3 and format the partition, but 
whenever I try to mount the partition I get an error "to many files 
mounted or bad block on file system".  If I decrease the size of he 
partition to 140GB then I can mount it, increase to 160GB and then I 
can't.  If I create one partition 130GB and another partition 70GB then 
I can mount both.
Any ideas what could be causing this,  I thought that if a computer had 
a problem with 137GB hardrives it simply wouldn't allow creation of a 
200GB partition.
This is on a Fedora Core 1 system.