Installing XP pro on an 160GB SATA drive

When installing, all I get is 'setup is inspecting your computers hardware
configuration' white writing on a black screen then blank screen. No blue
screen of the windows setup program.
My bios sees the 160gb SATA no problem, but the windows setup program won't
run, it just hangs, tried removing all pci cards from system.
Even run the drive in another machine as a secondary drive, xp sees it no
problem, formatted it no problem, but if I try to install on it, nothing.

Any ideas? Is my drive faulty (its brand new)?
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