I've just installed a Hitachi 1 terabyte SATA Hard drive on an IDE motherboard (replacing an OLD ide hard drive) using a sata adapter card with cable. I have 2gb of RAM.
I clean installed a new Windows XP and it seemed OK until I did a cold boot, all reboots had WORKED, but from cold it tries to reinstall XP until I press the reset button to reboot.

I tried changing the order on the bios boot list, even tried removing the CD drive from the list, but it still wants to boot from the CD on start.

Have I missed something. Hitachi's site SAYS drivers are not required as XP includes them.

XP gives me occassional blue screen crashes also, which may or may not have something to do with it.
Any ideas?i also have this b4,but on an external hard drive, what written when the blue screen occurs?try making it as a slave see is it works on bootI only have this drive installed at the moment.
I think the problem may be that there is no SATA option in the bios and it just boots from wherever it can.
So the motherboard is not SATA friendly!
I will probably re- install the IDE drive as the master.
Cheers.there u go..u just realize what im gonna tell u next..
Did the SATA adapter card come with any software or drivers ? ?
There should be a message early on in the boot process when the card is loading...it's in there that you will find the boot options.