Installing Windows XP Professional

matt20matt20
edited January 2011 in Science & Tech
My hard drive went out recently, so I had to replace it. I have all of my XP professional CD's to reinstall it. However, I accidently started to install XP with a different XP CD (it was in the hard drive and didn't realize it was not the one I was supposed to use). I made it through the initial install, but was not able to finish because my product key is not attached to that CD. So, I tried to start over with a new XP cd (I have the product code for that one). I rebooted from the CD drive, but it kept going to a screenthat says restarting install and then takes me to the point in the process it was on the old CD. It then prompts me to put that CD back in (which has already not worked). I have restarted from the CD drive about 5 times and I can't seem to install from the new CD. Any advice how to completely restart the process with the new CD?

Comments

  • matt20matt20
    edited January 2011
    Sorry. I meant I initially tried to install with an XP CD that was in my CD drive, but was not mine (tech guy left it in my computer).
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2011
    For whatever reason your computer is not booting from CD. Check Google for tutorials on configuring a CD-ROM drive as a boot device in your BIOS. If the CD-ROM is configured as the first boot device, and the PC still won't boot off of your Windows CD, you might look at the disc itself as being defective.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited January 2011
    Or the drive being defective.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2011
    The drive is not likely to be defective since it already booted a CD that was not his.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited January 2011
    Ah... whooops, this is what I get for skimming the original post.
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