The seller said it would work. I still feel that it will.

I was looking back at the messages and there is quite a few clues about the IDE controller driver problem that no one put together. I said I had a controller card in the first post. Then there was the FLTMGR.SYS message. Then I said the message is different when I moved the IDE cables to the MB. Then I said I was getting some files corrupted. Still noone said anything and I identified the problem myself.

There has been a few mi****s including memory, W2000 corrupt, spyware, XP firewall.

Some useful advice included uninstalling system protection and anti-virus before installing and using F8 to get the blue screen.