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Ok, a couple of things here. You shouldn't need to use the seagate setup utility to setup your HD, assuming your machine isn't ancient. These utils are are usually for machines with really old BIOS's that can't address drives.... That said, it prolly won't hinder, but likely won't help.
NTLDR is the boot loader for NT/2k/XP/etc. Essentially, it loads the microkernel and HAL into memory. HAL is essentially one really big process that talks to all of the peripherals in your machine (Hardware Abstraction Layer).
I think there's a preloader before ntldr that installs, a boot manager. So what I'm thinking is this... The seagate install CD installed a boot manager on the drive, which is looking for ntldr.
So what it sounds like is you're booting off of your HD, not the CD. MS puts a little program on the cd which will boot from your HD if you don't give it input... They do this so if you leave the CD in the drive and reboot it won't boot off the CD automatically. I don't remember what it says exactly, but I think it says something like 'press any key to boot up off of the xp install cd'. You have a small window of time to push a key, and if you don't it'll try to boot up off of the HD.
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