Reinstalling XP/Installing XP Pro

Hey all.

I recently purchased an AMD Anthlon II X2 7750 CPU with a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2h motherboard and 4 gigs of pc6400 corsair RAM.

My System looks like this.

Anthlon X2 7750
GA-MA78GM-US2H
2 x 2 GB Corsair XMS2
ASUS 9600GT video card
Antec 500W PSU
Western Digital 250GB SATA HDD with 8mb cache.

So, I have installed the new processor/ram/mobo in a new case, and when i set everything I knew I'd have to reinstall XP.
I got a copy of XP Professional for free because I am on Home Edition, and thought why not upgrade. I've backed-up everything thing I need from my hard drive and am fine with losing whatever is on it. I figured I just put it the XP Pro cd into the drive and it will run on startup. The problem I am having is that I keep getting the message "DISK BOOT FAILURE".

It says Boot From CD/DVD: and I have the disk in my master dvd-rw drive and i always get this message:

DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

I don't know what the problem is or what I should too so......any help? =)

I haven't gotten that message. In my bios I set the first boot device to CDROM. When i restarted it goes to a kind of company screen where it says what procesor i have etc. Then the screen goes to this table that flashe sup really fast and at the bottom it says
BOOT FROM CD/DVD:

then after a few seconds it comes up with

DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

When it tells you Boot From CDROM Press Any Key, you have about 5 sec to press a key, and if you don't it continues to look for a boot device, if you have not designated a 2nd or 3rd boot device you get> DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER.

When the boot process says Boot From CDROM

Press any key to get to the CDROM boot option

Then you should see a confirmation Boot from CDROM Press Any Key.

Well thanks guys, I've taken care of all that, I have my boot devices set, the XP Pro disc in....it is a legit copy there could be something wrong with it. Everything is hooked up right, I have my optical drives set...this is what comes up now though.

Boot from CD/DVD:

thats it. then after 1-2 seconds it goes to the screen where it says windows xp has encountered a problem, it could be due to a recent hardware change blah blah blah....the same screen that has the option to boot normally, last good configuration, safe mode etc.

That's all that has happened. I have no clue what to make of it, would it be best to leave my hard drive in my old PC and get a new one, then transfer the data over later?

it is recognized by the computer i'm currently using yes. at least when you insert it from the desktop.

My boot order is:

CDROM
Hard Disk
Floppy (though i don't have one)

I have a DVD-RW drive and a CD-RW hooked up used an IDE connector, with the top part in my DVD drive, and the bottom in my CD drive. I've tried booting with the disk in both.

Maybe. I don't actually know. How could I change this? and only CDROM shows in the boot order. You reckon I should
hook up just the dvd drive, with the top of the IDE cable, and not the other drive, right?

alright done. give it a boot right. see what happens?
they were offset. the master cable position was in the drive that had the jumper on cable select and the 2nd IDE position was in the drive with the jumper on master. this would mess a lot of things up, should i try it out?

Thanks a lot!