Can't start Windows XP

[Guest]

I want to do a clean install of XP. I've set my boot order in BIOS so that
my CD drive is ahead of my hard drive. However, when I restart my computer
with the XP install disk in the CD drive, all I get is a black screen with
nothing but a small grey bar in the top left hand corner that blinks for
maybe 30 seconds, then the computer proceeds to load XP.

Please help.

 

[Malke]

I want to do a clean install of XP. I've set my boot order in BIOS so that
my CD drive is ahead of my hard drive. However, when I restart my computer
with the XP install disk in the CD drive, all I get is a black screen with
nothing but a small grey bar in the top left hand corner that blinks for
maybe 30 seconds, then the computer proceeds to load XP.

Please help.

1. Check the CD in a different computer. If it doesn't boot there, you
know something is wrong with the CD.
2. If the CD works fine in a different computer, you know there is
something wrong with your optical drive in the original machine. Swap it
out for a known-working one.


Malke

 

[Unknown]

While the bar is blinking tap a keyboard key.