A200 Australian Laptop Will NOT Boot!!!! Help!

Here's the story, I got this Australian laptop (A200 PSAFCA-01K00J) that was shipped with Vista, but just like everyone I can't stand Vista so I removed it. Tried installing XP and to my surprise XP installation actually detected the hard drive and will format it no problem, then starts copying files and at the first reboot it reboots fine and then it gets stuck on the splash "TOSHIBA" logo screen and then reboots itself and continues over and over....

There isn't much I can do in the BIOS, and yes it detects the HDD in there.

I go so pissed off and even tried installing Vista back on the lappy and omg... it will not detect the Hard drive even for the setup.

WTF is with this, it's the first laptop I've ever tried formatting and I never thought it'll be this ridiculously hard.
Can someone shed some light on what I could atleast try? I'm out of ideas.

P.s does anyone know if re-formatting Toshiba laptops is out of warranty range?
Thanks guys.

 

I don't think there would be a problem with the warranty and formatting the HDD.
Try reinstalling XP or do a system recovery if you didn't delete the Vista partition.