I got a NEW hard drive for my computer. I took out the old one and started to install windows xp pro. half way thru there was an error. The cd is no good. I got a copy of another windows xp froma friend and when I put this one in and turn on the computer the screen says resuming windows setup. a minute later there is an error message saying basically that this cd does not MATCH the original one and is fatal.

How do I EITHER format the drive or start fresh from this cd?Assuming you are posting from another puter - my thinking right now would be to find and download a basic bootable file set (including a few tools including fdisk or similar) - and burn those to a CD.

Then USE that to boot - do your format and then try again on a clean install from spare CD.If you boot to the XP CD you should have the option to remove/rebuild the existing partitions...Quote from: patio on September 14, 2008, 07:17:51 PM

If you boot to the XP CD you should have the option to remove/rebuild the existing partitions...