I was not booting from CD, I was doing it in windows.
I found out that I could get it to go to completion if I turned off my internet and Norton anti-virus.
But, now i have a diffrent problem with it. I got the corpy my hard drive to go to 100% and say that it's done. but I cant figure out how to make it boot from the other drive properly. I tried cnanging the boot order in the bios and unpluggin the origional drive and booting from the new one. when i changed the bios the computer still booted from the original drive, and when i removed the original drive the computer would start to boot from the new drive and the freeze right before the welcome to windows xp screen. what should i do?
Note: both drives are SATA. the old one is a 7,200rpm maxtor and the new one is a 10,00rpm raptor.