How did you get to this conclusion??

Is the HDD located under the power supply? If yes, and if I remember corectly, the HDD can be pulled out toward the back of the case, after you removed the PSU...

Beep codes: http://www.acmehowto.com/howto/pc/problems/beepcodes.php
(at least soem of them...)

I still think you have a BIOS problem... If you're interested, there are some useful links:
http://www.fic.com.tw/support/motherboard/doc/procedure.aspx ...

No, but Malkcontent posted the same problem twice, in separated threads (one in WinME board)...

" The HD reads as 2 gig in the bios as well... but I still can't get it to recognise that extra 8 gig on there" - so the problem is not the FAT, but hte BIOS...

A BIOS update should resolve the problem - I figure that MB is an old one, and old version of BIOS don't recognize more of 2 gigs HDD. I delt with such problems sometime, and a BIOS upgrade fixed...

If the OS on your HDD is missing or corrupted, you can put that HDD on every laptop you find, and none will boot...that's for sure...no matter if the HDD is bad or not...

>>How does it "sometimes...

Then try to reinstall Windows, and see what's happening...