need some help hard drive problem

[dbuttcheek69]

im tryin to put my computer together but my sata hard drive is giving me some major problems, i think. I got a Hitachi 80 gb and an ASROCK mobo and have been tryin to load winxp on the Hdd for 3 days now, i have run out of ideas.

at first i was finally able to get it onto the hd and after all the files were copied onto the hd it would say i needed to restart my computer and setup would continue from there, yeah yeah SOP right? wrong. every time it would restart it would like totally forget that i had loaded XP onto it or sumtn and i would have to go through the whole process again.

i dont know what the problem could be, im not OCing at all, my psu is fine, and my winxp copy is legit. is my hdd busted or what? could somebody please help me out i really need some help.

thanks alot

 

[Cal166]

What's your CPU?

 

[alzan]

When you get the message to restart, while the computer is POSTing, go into BIOS and set your Boot Priority to Hard Drive 1st. Save Changes and exit BIOS and see if that does the trick.

 

[dbuttcheek69]

i got a P4 2.4 a