RE: Check the cables
The internal drives are Sata and the cables are absolute swaps from Vista to the new hardrive. No such thing as a jumper block have I seen on a simple SATA swap. Hell they don't even provide jumper buttons on these.
Re: Going to BIOS and setting boot instructions.
No problem there. Just for backup I plugged in an external CD through the USB and watched the boot sequence. First it went to the hard disk and displayed a NO OS found. Then it lit up the external CD drive and provided a setup screen for Windows XP, Then it spent a minute displaying all the various drivers that it was loading then it too displayed the blue screen of death having not found a proper hardrive.
RE: Support for 1 TB harddrives
This would have been an easy fix and of course I would be humbled. So I went out and bought a brand new 500 GB WD SATA and presto it also ends in the blue screen of death during the XP load. *&&**%
I now have a couple of beers in me and I'm feeling better already, but I'll hate life in the morning
RE: Does PC Bios support SATA?
Yes. That's all it supports relative to the first 6 slots including two for CD/DVD
Re: Slipstreaming drivers etc.
No floppy
No idea how this is done