windows xp install

[joanne fee]

Hi all I have just finished building a PC for a friend.I have powered it up
and it posts ok. I now need to install windows on it.
He has given me a copy of xp to put on it but I can not get this to boot
from cd. I had the same trouble when I did mine and resorted to using a 98
startup disk to format etc. installed my old 98se then upgraded.
I have tried this but it appears my 98 start up disk is faulty as I get a
disk I/O fault on both machines when booting from it.
I have been told that if you simply move the cd rom to the top of the boot
order insert win xp disk and boot up it should run. Is this right, what am I
doing wrong. How can I get another 98 boot disk?
Please help as I am desperate to get this finished.
Jo

 

[nobody760]

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[Greyfrog]

Joanne,
You first need to go into the BIOS and set it to boot first from
CD-ROM. That is usually the problem.

 

[Greyfrog]

To create a start-up disk, go to My
Computer>ControlPanel>Add/RemovePrograms>
StartUpDisktab and follow instructions for creating the disk for
Win98SE.
Or go to www.bootdisk.com.
Also see: www.computerhope.com/boot.htm.
Hope that helps.

 

[joanne fee]

yes done this
does not boot

 

[RBM]

In the bios, set the CD as first boot and try the disk again

 

[ZionIFL]

Joanne,

Perhaps it's the actual CD drive that the BIOS does not recognise?

It should boot up from the CD if it is "told to" do so in the BIOS.

Try using or borrowing another CD drive just for the sake of getting Windows
setup to boot up so you can install - then re-install the old one.

Cheers

 

[BruceM]

Was the HD "fdisked" or formatted in 98 or from dos before you tried doing
the install?
XP doesn't like it.
XP does not like anything dos related.
Also if you started installation & then aborted the install then it might
need a "cleanup" as well.
There are ways to overcome it but if you want the easy way, pop it in
another XP computer as a slave & format it "long". This will clean up the
trash that dos etc leaves behind. (FAT tables etc)
Then pop it back in your new comp & for starters put your HD on IDE1 as
master & the CD drive on IDE2 as master & with bios set to boot from CD hit
ENTER quickly when it asks you to. Ever after that just let it ask you but
let it go thru to boot from HD.