Installing Windows xp

[deereboy]

I have just made my new pc and i went to install windows, i put the disc in and then reboot it then after showing some information like ide drives and stuff it has boot from cd:
(loads a while and then saids)
Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter

This happens everytime. Any help would greatly be appreciated
Thanks

[Straight_Man]

Did you format your HD before completely installing XP? There will be a chance to do that in the installer and if you have a new HD it needs to have a partition made and then have formatting to happen.

[reelbigfish]

When you boot from a windows disk, it does boot right to the disk. You need to hit a key to get it to actually boot from the disk. The error will happen since there is no os on the drive.

[deereboy]

I didn't get a chance to partition or format

[deereboy]

what button would u press?