I have an (ancient) HP Pavilion 7840 with a Cognac Motherboard (200731). Windows Xp was installed by someone after market and has never run properly. I found where HP shows the bios should be 3.07 and what was installed was 4.06 so I set the bios to hp specs. Using an old 3 gig HDD I can use the recovery discs to get windows ME on the machine, but when I try to put XP back on it gives me the error message: setup could not determine the size of 1 or more mass storage devices in your system. I have re-installed XP on this machine a couple of times over the years and have never had this error message until I changed the bios. I have an 80 gig Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 (ST380013A) hard drive and a 30 gig Western Digital (WD 307AA) hard drive. Whenever I connect either of these 2 drives as the slave it slows the computer down drastically. I am not sure what to do from here...Please advise
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