Reboots at xp loading screen

Hey all. Recently my computer won't start up. It gets to the xp loading screen where the bar goes across, stays there for a while, and then reboots. I popped in the xp cd to repair it and setup said it can't detect any hard disks. (wtf?)

I have a soltek sl-k8t-939fl motherboard hooked to 1 sata drive

I can't take it out and slave it to anything else either, since all my other pcs are old IDE ones... is my hard drive broken or a bad cord maybe? I didn't install anything new or any new drivers or devices, so I have no clue what's going on here.

This motherboard supports both ide and sata, so I also tried hooking up an old ide drive and it wouldn't boot from that either. I was thinking if I could boot from the ide one I could check what's wrong with the sata one.
Thanks for any replies.

 

Oh yeah I forgot to add that. Last known good config doesn't work and NONE of the safe modes work.. (safe mode, safe mode with networking, with command prompt etc.)

For all of them, it just again starts to load, all the .dlls and .sys things come on the screen, then it just stops loading them. The list stays on the screen, the last one is "giveio.sys" then the screen goes dark for about a second, comes back on and after that line it says "press esc to stop loading d347bus.sys". If I don't push esc, that line disappears, and the rest stay there until it reboots. If I do push esc, the same thing happens as not pushing it.

 

You need sata drivers most likely if the XP disk doesn't see the drive.
The easiest way to intergrate the drives (if you dont have a floppy) down load
the sata drivers & use nLite to 'slipstream' them into the disk, then you can do a repair. The drive is being recognized or you'd never get as far as you do at boot.

 

okay I will try that. I can hook up a floppy and try it both ways. But I think there is something else wrong because switching out the sata one for an ata one still doesn't fix the problem. it's still not recognized :/ and why would my pc suddenly not recognize sata anymore after I've been using it for months?