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MSI K8N SLI problems

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I am rebuilding a system with some parts I had lying around and I am having trouble getting the damn thing to boot.

This is the build:

MSI K8N SLI motherboard (BIOS version 1.8)
AMD Athlon 64 4000+
1 gig (512 X 2) of Kingston HyperX DDR400 ( I have also tried 512 X 2 Corsair XMS Xpert series DDR400)
BFG Geforce 6800 GT OC
ATI HD video capture card *
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum*
Lite-On DVD-RW
WD 36 gig Raptor (SATA) (primary drive)
WD SATA 500 gig (SATA) (storage drive) *
Maxtor ATA133 40 gig (ATA133) (old storage drive)*
1.44 floppy
Corsair HX620W PSU

*removed to track down the problems

I have been trying for 2 days to get this thing to boot to the Raptor. I can get it to boot to the DVD drive without trouble and run the windows XP setup but when it restarts after copying files it refuses to boot to the Raptor. The BIOS sees it and I can select it in the boot options menu but it doesn't do anything from there. It is almost like it ignores it.

I have tried to use the Nvidia raid setup tool to set the Raptor in an array by itself but that doesn't work either. I have repeatedly run though the BIOS but I haven't found anything that seems out of place or misconfigured. I have tried the optimized defaults and I have tried clearing the CMOS but nothing works. I really don't want to have to use the old IDE storage drive as the primary when I have the raptor just sitting there begging to be used. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
 
reformat/repartion yet ?? hook it up to another comp and scan it - check boot sector.
 
I will boot to WD's Diag and check it. If that doesn't work I will pull the drive and have it scanned on another machine. It seems unlikely but I am not willing to rule anything out at this point. Thanks for the suggestion.
 
I ran WD diag and chkdsk /r from the recovery console and it is doing the same thing. It says DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. So I am still looking for a solution if anyone else has an idea I would be grateful. At this point I am running out of ideas.
 
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