ok i just bought a dvd burner and installed it. blah blah. after it was installed i booted computer and i got this

hmm must be bad jumper settings? played aorund with that for like 8 hours.. no luck

ok i muts have bumped the 500 gb internal hardrive or magnatized it and erased it or corrupted it?

well shit… now what do i do… i guess install a new os..

so heres what i do

all right heres what happend
1: unplugged all drives
2: set dvd drive to master slot 1
3: set fudgeed 500 gb hardrive to slave slot 0
4: set spare 60 gb hardrive to master slot 0
5: booted from xp cd
6: no os to be repaired.. so i cant use recovery. when the hardrive got fudgeed it must have erased everything
7: said fudge it..
8: put 500 gb external at master slot 3
9: 60 gb hardrive at master slot 0
10: f’d hardrive at slave slot 0
11: dvd burner at master slot 1
12: cd burnre at slave slot 1
13: delete fried partition on f’d 500 gb
14 create partition on it
15: error: it says it doenst contain a windows xp compatable partition WHAT THE FUCK….
16: delete partition
17: create partition on 60 gb
18: format with quick option
19: format complete
20: computer restarts
21:loads forever 5 minutes
22: installing windows apears
23: installation complete
24: computer restarts
25: BOOTS TO XP!!! IT WORKED
26: control panal – admin tools – comp manage – format f’d hardrive
27: format complete
28: drive is marked as a healthy partition
29: put a few files on partiion on fudgeed hardrive
30: reboot
31: still there (hardrive works?)
32: reboot
33: boot from cd
34: format 60 gb
35: installl xp on f’d hardrive
36: it installs
37: computer restarts
38: boots to black screen…

the reason i used a 60 gb hardrive is because if f’d hardrive is set in master slot it crashes when booting from cd so i belive it is a hardware issue…

i did what you said and it quits booting at verifying dmi pool data……