I second that. I've never had good luck with partitioning software provided by HDD manufacturers. I would boot to the XP CD and delete partitions etc as above. If that doesn't work, try hitting F6 when prompted "if you want to load a third party disk driver" when booting to the cd and load a newer version of the driver for you SATA chipset from floppy at the beginning of the XP install.

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