Win XP- invalid boot diskette in drive a? help please

[savage]

i recently put a new 40 gig hard drive in my cpu because my old 8.5 gig was'nt cuttin it anymore. when i did this i had to get a new controller card because the old one didnt support it. then when i tried to install my freshly bought copy of win Xp home Ed, all i get is a message saying "invalid boot diskette in drive a, insert boot diskette in drive a. i have the cd-rom drive setup as the default boot device, i just dont know if the rest of the setup is right. ive been trying to figure out this problem for a month know so if anyone can help id appreciate it. thank you.

 

[finite]

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[tribalsun]

Try reading the forum rules before you post finite.

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[mrdinkel]

www.bootdisks.com

 

[NeoExtreme]

Do you have a floppy in drive a?

 

[savage]

no i dont have a floppy in drive a. i did have windows boot disks made in floppys but they wouldnt boot either.

 

[NeoExtreme]

So when you have no floppy in you get the error of invalid boot disk? Even with your XP disk in the ROM drive?

 

[savage]

yes

 

[NeoExtreme]

Ok try a win98 bootdisk from http://www.bootdisk.com and do a fdisk,delete any partions and try to boot from cd,or take the floppy drive completely out of the boot order and then try to boot from cd.

 

[savage]

ok ill try both thank you.