Not booting from cd

[Chuck1]

I need help. I formatted my hdd and now when I try to boot from cd it just says no opper£ating system found. It doesnt boot from the cd. Trying to install Xp. I didnt create a partition after I deleted the old ones.

 

[Sting]

n00b question, but is your CDROM device set as the 1st Boot device in your BIOS?

 

[Prof.]

You need to choose boot from CD. To do that, you need to press F12 or something else when your motherboard's logo is displayed while booting.

EDIT: Or what moggie said.

 

[Chuck1]

Thanx for the replys. wil try it.

 

[Toitjie]

both mentioned things could work...

either set ur cdrom to be ur primary booting device

or on start-up select the boot menu and then select the cdrom

i prefer the later... as if it always tries to boot from cdrom 1st, it does slow boot up time down a few secs.. if anything is in the cd rom

 

[Chuck1]

It boots now but when installing Xp eveything goes smovely but it stall at saving settings at 9 min remaning.

I formatted a few months ago and everything went smoothly but not this time. Any suggestions?