So that means the BIOS recognised the old hard drive first time round which is good. Going back to the new hard drive have you tried resetting the jumper on that? It should be possible to set it to Master with Slave present rather than Master and No Slave. Keep the old HD fitted and see what happens when you reboot.
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Do you know that we're all in line for succession to the throne? Really?
Well, if forty-eight million, two hundred thousand, seven hundred and one people died I'd be Queen.