change your boot order in your bios so it checks floppy then cd drive then hard drive then reboot and it will boot off xp and will reformat the drive then install xp. takes ages to install though

just because two other people have said it.....

try changing your boot order in your bios....

done that already...hasnt helped.....damn computers.

If your XP disk is a pirated copy then it may not be setup to boot.

In that case you will need to create the boot floppy disks. Use a machine
with a floppy disk drive. In win2000 there was a "makeboot" utility on the CD
which would create the boot disks for you to use in the new machine. I
guess XP has a similar utility.

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its a ligit copy and also i didnt buy a floppy drive *slaps self*

If it is a legit copy, and you are certain your cd is first in the boot order, make sure you are reading the screen just after the post where it says

"Press any key to boot from cd..."

there is no screen were it says "press anykey to boot from cd" but i presses spacebar continuesly and still went into bios......for some reason it wont let it boot from cd.

then ur cd isnt bootable. i have several copys which will take legal keys which are bootable with service pack 2 im happy to make u a copy.

i can even give u a hand if u wish.

tim

i'll piss fart around for a while and see if i can find something, if not i'll pm you "NVRENUF"

thanks for the help gang.

Dont you just love computers