Thank you.
I can find three stickers on the mother board. They read:
00E0 18C 569 6B
1761375xx 0020443*
MS 1091440-M6PF20-B06-02975
The Hard drive being detected by the BIOS is:
WDC WD3200AAJB-00WGA0
The drive I removed was a Maxtor 40 GB ATA/66 drive and the excact modle of my computer is a Sony Vaio PCV-RX270DS.
Oh, I read somewhere where it was asked what what type of XP disk am I trying to install from. The disk has those colorful holograms on it if this is important.
Really, thanks so much for your time.
Steve