"Jacques E. Bouchard" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote in news:h1tspp$j1j$1@news.eternal-
> I thought about the MBR, but a clean install of WinXP would take care of
> that (dring the installation process I created a new partition and
> formatted it), as well as restoring the disk image from the original CDs.
>
> I reset the BIOS to its defaults at one point to make sure that wasn't
> the problem, but it made no difference.
>
> Considering that two drives (one old, one brand new) both behaved the
> same way, I too tend to suspect the IDE controller.
>
>

When you partitioned the drive , did you set the partition as "active" ?