Totally lost need some guidance.

Ok my situation:

have a pentium 3 933 mhz with a 40 gb hd. the hd had a 50/50 partition and i wanted to reformat the entire disk then make my own partitions and then re-install xp.
what i did:

1. i used a program called killdisk to wipe out the hd
2. used win98 fdisk to set partitions
3. plugged the hd in my other comp as a slave and used a pirate copy of xp pro to install on the drive

2 problems:

1. the hd wont load on my computer after setting it back to master drive with xp pro on it, all it says is 'verifying dmi pool data"


2. my other comp asks me what OS to boot with every time, even though only one is present.

Guidance?

Thanks, Andrew