XP Setup Won't Recognize drive

[VockViel]

Hi all- This is my first post here on the tips n tricks forums.

Here's my issue:

XP was running fine off my 120 gb SATA drive until I ran disk cleanup one day... windows started to freeze up, and when I restarted Windows will boot normally up until the Windows Xp loading screen (the one with the little blue bar going back and forth).

Now, it freezes and I get a BSOD, then the comp restarts. I've run diagnostics using seatools and it does show a few sectors being corrupt.
When I do a new install of Windows XP (booting from the CD) I load the SATA drivers from a disk (pressing F6) but still Windows setup says "hard disk not found." What do I do?

[pip22]

I would suspect the disk has more than a few bad sectors -- maybe it's failed completely. not unknown, even with nearly new drives. At this point, the only way to confirm this is to borrow another disk to see if XP setup 'sees' it without actually running setup any further so as not to overwrite it's contents.