Hard disk problem

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i am trying to install a Western Digital 1.0 TB WD10EZEX hard drive on a Windows XPSp3 system, but all I get is BSD, the Blue Screen of Death. I already partitioned and formatted the drive with two 460GB partitions using the Mini Tool Partition Wizard without any problems.
What can the problem be?
 
When you say you are trying to install the drive, is it as a secondary drive? Need some details about exactly what you are doing with the drive. If you are trying to use it as a boot disk, you need to install Windows on it in the system you are installing it on. No need to use Mini Tool for that, you can set it up when you install Windows.
 
When I try to install Windows XPSp3 on a 500GB disk from a CD, it crashes with a BSD as soon as all the files have been downloaded from the CD. But booting the machine from the old hard disk, I see the new disk and can write to it without any problems. But somehow it looks as there is something with the disk that the installation procedure doesn't like.
Will try with a 50/50 partitioned 1TB disk later today.
 
The machine already has a disk with WinXp from which it boots. I add another disk, a 500GB device, and wish to install WinXp on that one. So I put a Windows XP installation CD in the CD drive, and start a typical installation process, with the files form the CD being copied to the new hard drive. After the file copy process is completed, the installation process is supposed to continue doing what it always should do - installing a working operating system on the new disk. But instead of doing that, it returns the error message shown upthread. That means the OS will not be installed this side of eternity unless a genius solves the problem. I don't have a clue, my mind is blank wrt what the problem may be. But something is missing. The usual sequence of events is that after entering the code from the sticker associated with the CD, the process is interrupted and terminates with the BSD.
My conclusion is that installing windows on a new drive in this machine is impossible, therefore I am going to buy a new and different motherboard assuming that the problem can't jump from one motherboard to the next. I don't think the problem is hiding in the case or power supply, unless I've run into a hitherto unknown problem.

What obviously is missing is that early in the process, the option of selecting, partitioning and formatting of available, bootable storage media is made available.