Urgent help please ( laptop not booting from cd )

[prasanta.voiceoflove]

Hi all , i have Compaq610 laptop of 1 year old... recently my xp got crashed due to virus .. so i made plan to install new xp...

but unfortunately my laptop not booting up from any of my xp/ windows xp cds... this cds having no prob as it working fine in all other pc... there is cd as booting preference in bios.. live linux cds are booting normally... but xp/7 cds not booting....

Please advice me urgently what should i do ?

Thanks in advance.

[swatkat]

What happens when you boot laptop with Windows CD? What happens after BIOS loads? Do you see any messages like "Press any key to continue booting from CD.."?

[prasanta.voiceoflove]

after bios screen it just shows a blink " _ " and nothing

[swatkat]

What happens if you press F8 key during system bootup? Do you get any menu?

[prasanta.voiceoflove]

nothing happens with f8

[phuchungbhutia]

Try linux then, ubuntu for instance . I had similar prob xp wont load n memtest was ok so i tried ubuntu it worked in it . Guess it ram prob.

[prasanta.voiceoflove]

I diagonised memory..its ok.. Someone in digit pls help to install xp ..pls

[cute.bandar]

does it support booting from usb ? if so, then you can easily copy your xp CD to a pen drive (google for how) .
ALso vista and 7 can be installed via mounting their dvd's iso image (no need for cd) . not sure if it will work with xp

[serendipiti]

I guess u have to disable SATA native mode from BIOS and then boot from CD.