129gb SATA hard drive

i just got new pc with sata 120gb hd and would like to install
win XP. installing the xp comes with a message that canot find
any hard drive . i ran fdisk and created 2 partitions, 60gb each.
started the xp installation and again got “no hard drive found..”
please advice what i have to do? how to setup the sata 120gb
thank you