need major help please

[cwpogue]

I have a compaq presario 5000, I was told I needed a new hard drive. I installed the drive and went to install windows xp home and during install it sayed to reboot, so I did and now I have this message..Couldn't open drive multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) NTLDR: couldn't open drive multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1).
could someone please help me.

[Gettinbye]

Sounds like your hard drive is not being seen or your boot.ini file is inaccurate. Check in BIOS to make sure your drive is being seen correctly. If so(and more likely), your boot.ini file may be corrupt or inaccurate. It should look something like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home" /fastdetect

Is the hard drive on the primary IDE channel?
Is it sharing an IDE channel with another device(cd-rom,ect)? If so, do you have the jumpers set correctly? They should be set as master/slave, OR both should be set as cable select.
Also, how big is the drive? Large drives (usually over 137g)occasionally need additional drivers and/or software to be recognized correctly.