MSI mobo not detecting HDD

Please help,
My newly installed MSI 6383 Socket 370 Mobo is not detecting HDD.  Actually, it detects it but is not booting to WinXP.  It hangs up while verifying VMI data pool?
Any Suggestions.
I had to replace mobo due to lightning strike which zapped psu and mobo, i think.  
Thanks

Yes it was in zapped pc.  We have an identical HP in another office so i I took this drive out and put it in identical one and it works fine.  It is jumpered as the master and connected that way.    Seems like it is a compatability problem between motherboard and HDD, but I don't know.  Both the floppy and the cdrw work fine.  Thanks for the help.

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