If the drive was formatted with FAT32 instead of NTFS in your previous installations you wouldn't of had this issue. It only applies if you have NTFS file system.
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You guys are forgetting that in a fresh install of any NT4, Win2k, or WinXP OS, you do not need to do a dos fdisk beforehand. You can and will want to do all your partitioning inside of the setup mode, so you can select a NTFS partition.
If you turn the APM back off does it stop?
Did you actually load Windows XP from scratch or did you do an upgrade? If you upgraded, I would really suggest a fresh installation of XP, it tends to work a lot better.
XP will automatically shut down your PC if the power management is setup properly.
In Control Panel, make it show all available options and go to Power Options, APM, and see if it is checked. If not, check it.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q313290
If you want installed...