Windows XP does not start, no hard drive error

I have windows XP installed on my hard drive of 160 GB WD Scorpio Blue PATA on a DELL Latitude D600. One day, I wake up and my laptop does not start. My computer starts up, leaves POST, but the hard drive does not start. He's right there. I try pressing the buttons but it starts a sound signal, so I have to turn it off. Normally, if there is no device that my computer can boot from it displays something along the lines, "no main boot device found. Press F1 to retry boot or F2 to enter the configuration utility. "but the screen does not show anything.
I ran chkdisk and a number of other diagnostic tools on the hard drive, but nothing helped. I have Ubuntu on a USB key and with him, I can access the files on the hard drive - all files are intact, and I can read/write without problems. It just does not start.
How would I go about fixing this? Any help is appreciated. It is the third hard drive that has failed inside my D600 (my second WD). I've had enough of this!

Try to use the last good known Configuration:

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307852

and see if that clears things up to the top.

Hope this helps

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