Please help me in Os installation

My friend told me to help him reformat his pc coz he forget the password .The os is windows xp. The harddisk is fine and functioning well. When I tried to reformat it and I put the os cd already and booted it up, It wont continue and it says no harddisk detected(before I tried to reformat it, it loads until choose user screen). So I brought my own harddisk (already have os inside windows xp) the computer wont load the system. Ive tried 2 different harddisk with os intalled already but still it loads only the windows xp loading screen and suddenly restarts. But if I try his harddisk it will continue to load until the choose user screen. Is it possible that the motherboard restricts any other OS and harddisk? I dont know the name of the motherboard but I attached the picture of it. Im thinking maybe theres something I need to change inorder to install new kind of os . Please help me . The computer is old but its still usable. Its cpu is celeron d only and supports ide harddisk only