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OK, so try that. Take out the sata drive. Hook up the old ide drive. When you install XP, delete the partition that is on the drive, create a new partition, and format that partition. Look for directions on installing xp if you are unsure how to do this. Taking these steps will ensure no old data will stay on the old drive and you have a "fresh" install of xp.I did have an idea though, putting this harddrive that has ME on it and putting it into the new machine. Then get the pc to format, fix, recognise (whatever it needs to do), then install xp onto that. The only problem, really, is that I do not want to keep anything from this old harddisk, its full of spyware, virus's, junk files, and things that a AMD Duron 700 and a 32Mb stick of ram were never designed to run or fix in the first place.
I am thinking now that the sata drive got fried somehow since it is not recognized in the bios. If you can get it running this way you will at least have it operational. Then try the sata drive in another computer and see if the problem is with the drive.