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ok read over the post again, just going to throw the most common things at you. even though some of it looks like it has been gone over will list it anyway for future post viewing.
1: if your motherboard controls for example ultra ata 100/133 drives and the new drive is (being a maxtor) 133, say you used the cable from the orriginal drive and it is ultra 66, this would be a problem all ribon cables are not the same. would need to use the one that came with the maxtor or get a ultra ata 133 cable.
2: if you only have the new 80 gig in try cable select for the jumper settings, some motherboards are picky.
3: power supply may be on the way out and the new device is dragging it down.
4: decribe the xp boot disk in more detail, do you use 6 floppy disk to boot the install process? or do you have a xp cd or recovery disk set.
5: try using the cmos jumper, or remove the cmos battery to clear the cmos to make the board redetect it's hardware in case it has not picked the drive up correctly.( toutch the metal on the case or power supply before you toutch the cmos jumper or battery to make sure you dont zap the bios chip)
6: maxtor drives come with a cd, you can make a powermax diagnostic disk with it from windows, it can do a low level packet write and erase the drive, then run the other diagnostics to see if the drive and motherboard controllers are working correctly.try the partition and setup again to see if something just didnt copy correctly.
7: check the bios to make sure you see the drive(s) listed correctly and in the right mode.
let us know where you get, post your results and we can take it from there.
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