Okay heres my problem, i currently have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pa 1510 notebook, with pre-installed vista home premium, however i despise this OS due to lag issues and constant irritating freezes. I wish to install XP Home Edition, however when launching the setup on my desktop the "Install Windows XP" line is in black and i cannot click, i know this CD works because have used it on my previous laptop.  So i tried to go into BIOS setup and put the priority as my cd drive however everytime i reboot my laptop it goes straight to my logon screen. So my questions are, would it be worth formatting my harddrive and possibly installing from there, or could someone please tell me exactly in great detail how to setup BIOS or another way to read the CD no startup, it would be appreciated so much.

Thank you

Regards
DannyWhen you set the boot order to boot from the CD/DVD Drive first, you will be prompted to 'Press any key to boot from CD'.
Are you getting that message?No i'm afraid i'm not i just tried to exclude booting from the harddrive in the BIOS and it loaded from cd but the only message that appears was "Operating System No Found".You could access the CD within Windows, correct?

Can you tell us your current Boot Order.Yeah i can access the setup from within my vista but the "Install Windows XP" is blacked out and i cannot click on it.

My current boot order is;

1. My CD Drive labelled- IDE CD: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T10N-(
2.My Harddrive labelled- IDE HDD: WDC WD1200BEVS-07LATO-(S1)
3.USB CDROM
4.USB HDD
5.PCI BEV
6.USB KEY
7.PCI SCSI
8.USB FDC

thanksTry putting your HDD under USB CDROM.It still BOOTS straight to windows the only way it doesnt boot to windows automatically is by excluding the HDD in BIOS but then it boots to my CD drive but says "Operating System Not Found". Could i perhaps be the copy of windows i have? Or is there another solution.There shouldn't be any problem...

What happens if you move HDD down to the bottom?Still boots straight to windows, i've just tried putting my Vista Recovery Disk in and it reads that perfectly don't know if this makes any difference at all. Try to restore defaults in your BIOS configuration. From there edit your boot order. CD/DVD ROM should be first to bootDone that countless times still boots straight to windows. Could i format my HDD get rid of everything and install XP that way or would that cause more problems.With a laptop XP CD this may be the hangup...
They are designed to ID the hardware you are installing to and if not found it may just be kicking you out to the next boot device which would be your HDD...Guys thanks for all your help i did it all your adivce helped the main problem was the fact i had a corrupt XP CD so i replaced this with home edition rather than professional i really really appreciate every single one of you that helped me thank you so much and i wish you good luck in HELPING others and all of your future endeavours.

Regards
Danny