Win XP Installation Problem (1 Viewer)

[SW220]

Ive got a copy of windows xp pro.

Ive formatted my computer and all.

But when i start up, the computer says

invalid system disk, replace disk and try again
^ This is when there is no disk even in the drive!

So anyway I put in a windows 98 system disk and press enter at the prompt, it then comes up with 3 options

1) boot with CD Rom support
2) without cd rom support
3) safe mode

so i boot with cd rom support, but i cant run setup.exe because it says this program cannot be run in DOS

Can anyone help?

 

[sunny]

Ive got a copy of windows xp pro.

Ive formatted my computer and all.

But when i start up, the computer says

invalid system disk, replace disk and try again
^ This is when there is no disk even in the drive!

This is normal, since your hard disk is no longer bootable after formatting.

So anyway I put in a windows 98 system disk and press enter at the prompt, it then comes up with 3 options

Why not use your Windows XP CD? It should be bootable.

 

[Winston]

If you still can't boot from your XP CD ROM you can execute the setup through the CD ROM's I386 directory, if i remember right the setup file is WINNT.EXE

or WINNT32.EXE, do a DIR listing and look for a file similar along those lines.

 

[SW220]

Ok thanks! but now i have an even bigger problem!!

Whenever i put a cd in it says

not ready reading drive E
abort, retry, fail

And no matter how long you wait it keeps saying that!!

Only happened recently! It was working like an hour ago!

 

[SW220]

Ok ive fixed it, all i did, was use another one of my computers, disconnect the hdd and connect my old hdd, then formatted it, by using the bios the boot from the CDrom, which worked!

Thanks for all your help!

 

[sunny]

ooo...sounds like the CD ROM in your other computer's died then.