"Error loading operating system" Help with XP :( Thread

Hey

I recently bought a new computer, but since the bios is so new on it, most os's don't work unless they're a very recent version.
Even though I'm a mac and linux guy at heart, I went the dark route and got a copy of xp.

But I'm having trouble installing it, after it goes through the file copying faze of the install, and reboots. When it trys to boot from the harddrive I get this error: Error loading operating system.
I did some google searching, and found that alot of people have had this problem, but have nto yet found a fix for it

Here's my specs:
Abit NF7 S2G, Nforce2 ultra 400
Amd Athlon xp 2400
Nvidia Geforce FX 5700 ultra 128
512 ram
2 60 gig maxtor ultra ATA/133

Only one of the harddrives is hooked up atm, just so that it doesn't conflict with my linux install.

I spent about 3 straight hours trying to fix this last night, and 45 minutes this morning. And have been unable to get anywhere
And I've got a lan party with some friends coming up this afternoon, so I REALLY want to get it working for that.
So please, ANY help you guys can give, would be much appreciated.

*duh*. it has been you that asked me that question some weeks ago right? unfortunatly i've not found a solution yet. does the knowledge base on ms say something about this problem? try messing a bit around in the bios and deactivate fancy stuff and see it it works. judging from the error i suspect a problem with the hd-interface. tha hds are correctly jumpered right (meaning master/slave if on ide1)? have you tried moving them around? i had some boards that did cough if the ide drives had been connected not in a certain way. also try once only one hd and fiddle around in the bios to see if it works.

Try making a boot disk and attempt to install it again, but on a FAT32 formatted hd. (Don't do NTFS plz !!!!)

Ok I got it working I had to change my drive over from Master, to CS Enabled.