At this time, it is hard to said where is the problem come from.
But you may first checking the memory for corruption by download a testing app
from memtest (http://www.memtest.org

Then by installing windows xp by ms-dos with smartdrv with this command



This command do the same thing as windows xp boot-up cd's setup app
that will copies files and create folders on you hard drive, but instead
just start-up files (such as ntldr), almost whole cd files will copied to
your hard drive for easy install without cd disk here after.

I would like to help to solve your issues.

Eric,

If you are trying to install xp on a new motherboard via an new sata drive you will get this error. Xp has no native drivers for sata. There are sites that explain how to do this. Hope this helps.

-reply by gcelsor