XP CD Won't Boot

I am having this same problem but its on my laptop where I don't have any partitions. I have one hard drive that oddly enough will boot my dell drivers/diagnostic cd but absolutely refuses to boot anything else. Can someone Please help.

Sound like a problem I had installing XP on a Compaq, install goes fine until time to re-boot to complete setup then goes to blank screen w/blinking cursor, My problem turned out to be the BIOS setting for
the O/S, changed it from DOS to OTHER and it start booting up fine.
Hope this'll help

i also have this problem, this is the first thread i have seen on it.

is it possible to edit partitions and such in fdisk if my drive is in NTFS?

my mum bought a new computer and she wanted me to install XP on it a get rid of vista (what it came with) and now im having this problem

I had this problem on my Gateway laptop as well. I wiped my hard-drive clean, and had gentoo installed before anything else. Grub definately was the cause for Windows XP CD not to boot. Heres the solution that worked for me: 1.Go to boot setup 2. Disable your hard-drive from being master/slave. I made my Primary blank. Make your CD-Rom master/slave. Just make sure you're hard drive isn't listed at all. Also make sure you're CD rom is the first thing to boot. You will be able load the windows CD and you can delete the partitions, re-format...whatever you need to do

P.S. Don't forget to put the Hard-drive back to Master (or however you originally had it) once the CD makes you reboot...you will still only be able to use the cd-rom otherwise.

Maybe the the problem is not in PC but with the disc itself? Are you sure it is not self made?

thx is helped me a lot