IDE harddrive not booting after install

[Guest]

I recently bought a WD 160gb IDE hard drive and installed as a master on the
second ide port (with a CD writer as slave). On the first IDE port i have WD
40 GB IDE hard drive as a master and a DVD-rom as a slave. It all worked just
fine.

Recently i wanted to reinstall windows with the 160 gb drive on the first
ide port and the 40 gb on the second. changed the boot up sequence in BIOS
(drives where allready found). Restarted and put the XP installation cd in
the drive. It began installing XP(Home) after formating. When it was done
copying files and restarted the following message appeared.

failure in scsi device, can't boot or something similar.

Is there a problem with my motherboard?
It recognize it as a 160 gb drive but it doesn't show heads,cylinders or
sectors.
With the 40 gb drive it does recognize them
Motherboard : MSI 845E max (approx. 2 years old)

thanx

 

[Yves Leclerc]

To use the newer 160GB hard drive and to format it correctly, you need to be
using a motherboard that can do 46Bit LBA and use XP SP1/SP2 CD to format.
If you are using an older XP CD, look on how to "slipstream" SP2 and create
a new XP install CD.