Alright, i have a problem. I just purchased a new hard drive and ive been trying to install windows xp on my pc. Everytime i boot up the pc, it gives me the message "Reboot & select proper boot device, or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key." I have 3 boot devices which are my cdrom, cd writer and my hard drive. Ive tried everything and it just doesn't detect my xp cd. Any ideas?

oh i have a hp pavilion with a intel pentium 4 processor, 500gb hdd.

Hi welcome to the forum A lot of the time I have found it is best to have one CD/DVD drive pluged in when trying to boot from the XP cd might be worth a try first. And you will also need to set it to boot from the CD/DVD drive in the bios

so should i plug out my cd rom and just leave my cd writer in? What about the hardrive?

Yep and hard drive pluged in as well the go into the bios and set it to boot from the cd drive and have the XP cd in the cd drive.

Do you know how to get into the bios?

Hi, go into the BIOS and look for an option that says something like Boot Order (or similar). Set that option to the following order: A:\ (Floppy), CD-ROM, Hard Disk.

Then when it says Boot from CD when your computer is booting up, you should be able to boot from the XP cd.

Thanks,
Adam

It will usually say press any key to boot from cd rom or somthing similar to that.


But I've never been able to find the any key

alright, i will try that and get back to you guys with my results. My bios was already set for cd primary and hard drive secondary and not worked but i'll try again. Thanks, and ill be back in a few with my results :P