I have a motherboard Intel d850gb - gb85010a, a P4 at 1.7GHz and a 80GB IDE hard drive. This machine had Windows 98SE installed and I wanted to upgrade to XP (Pro). I am constantly getting an error message saying “disk error” when windows tries to recognize the hard drive. I deleted all the partitions and created new ones, but still the same error. However, when re-installing W98SE I had no problems, and the installation finished ok. I installed the updates for the BIOS and the IDE drivers recommended by Intel and nothing. By the way, W2000Pro does the same than WXP.
 
First question for you, do you have any idea what it could be?
 
I’m wondering if the mother board has the IDE slot broken. But I don’t know why W98SE has no problems recognizing the hard disk. In that case, is the any kind of adapter for the hard drive to convert my HD form IDE to SCSI? (I tried with a borrowed SCSI hard drive and the installation for WXP started properly).