doing a fresh install

I am in the process of putting a larger hard drive in I bought it s/h with a warranty I came home removed the old drive fitted the new drive and had to fit a pin connector to make it a Master I put in my cd of 2000 and off we go all it does is keep formatting over and over the guy I bought it of said he connected it to XP and formatted it as a Slave I have set it up as a slave and shows that I have 2 hard drives so I go to D drive and install some software I made sure it went to D check it works check C drive and software is on C drive as wellso I disconnected my C drive and D drive comes up disk failure replace disk and press enter HELP