Hi everyone,
I recently purchased a dance pad, but discovered that ti was only compatible with Windows XP. As I had a spare hard-drive lying around, I decided that I'd just buy a copy of XP to run on it for that purpose. I bought it from here:-
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252013013653?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
and the disc arrived today. I disconnected my normal hard-drive (with Windows 7 on), and connected the one I planned to reformat and put Windows XP on into the machine in it's place. But despite having inserted the CD, and made the cd/dvd drive the primary boot device in the BIOS, I can't seem to boot from the CD. I tried inserting my windows 7 disc as a test, and it boots just fine to the installation process from that, so there's no issue with the reader itself or it's connection to the machine. But when I select to boot from the XP disc, the screen just goes blank and nothing happens. No options or indication that anything's happening.
I've looked at the disc in another machine, and there are suitably titled programs on the disc for xp installation. So knowing that the reader works, and the disc seems to be legit, I'm stumped. Any ideas, anybody?
I recently purchased a dance pad, but discovered that ti was only compatible with Windows XP. As I had a spare hard-drive lying around, I decided that I'd just buy a copy of XP to run on it for that purpose. I bought it from here:-
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252013013653?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
and the disc arrived today. I disconnected my normal hard-drive (with Windows 7 on), and connected the one I planned to reformat and put Windows XP on into the machine in it's place. But despite having inserted the CD, and made the cd/dvd drive the primary boot device in the BIOS, I can't seem to boot from the CD. I tried inserting my windows 7 disc as a test, and it boots just fine to the installation process from that, so there's no issue with the reader itself or it's connection to the machine. But when I select to boot from the XP disc, the screen just goes blank and nothing happens. No options or indication that anything's happening.
I've looked at the disc in another machine, and there are suitably titled programs on the disc for xp installation. So knowing that the reader works, and the disc seems to be legit, I'm stumped. Any ideas, anybody?
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