Reinstalling Windows XP on replacement hard disk

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My existing 200 Gb hard disk (running Windows XP home edition SP2) is old,
running slowly and will not de-fragment so I have installed a second, 320GB
hard disk alongside it on a Dell Dimension 4600. I have partitioned the new
disk (30 GB - and 290 GB), given it the drive letter 'F' and made it the
Primary Master (the old disk is the Primary Slave). Now I wish to install
Windows XP home on the new disk and cannot find a way of doing this. Can
anyone advise me please? This is what I have done

1) Tried to boot using the Dell Operating System disk (Windows XP home with
SP1) supplied with the desktop - but it wont load. The CD light indicates
information is being read from the disk for a short while - then nothing
happens

2) Disconnected the old 200 GB disk and tried again with the operating
system disk - same problem

3) Tried to boot off the A drive using a set of floppy disks created from
the Windows XP home edition SP1 boot disk creator (dowloaded from
Miscrosoft's website). Disks 1 and 2 load - then the process sticks during
disk 3 - giving me this error message: Could not load setupreg.hiv - error
4099

4) Tried disconnecting the old hard disk and booting of the floppy disk set
as desribed in 3 above. Same problem - only the error message on disk 3 reads
like this: could not load halaacp1.dll - error 7.

Now I've run out of ideas. Can anyone help? Thanks!

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

1) Tried to boot using the Dell Operating System disk (Windows XP home with
SP1) supplied with the desktop - but it wont load. The CD light indicates
information is being read from the disk for a short while - then nothing
happens

Something is obviously broken. What could it be?

1. The CD. Ask the manufacturer for a replacement.

2. The CD drive. Have it repaired.

3. Something else. The CD drive data cable, the CD controller on
the motherboard, anything.

3 is kind of unlikely, so I would test the CD in another
computer first and try whether I can read from it.

Hans-Georg