Can't read CD during part of clean install

CoffeeCurt

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Jan 20, 2013
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Howdy all. I have a problem. I have installed windows since "Windows 95" so I'm not new to doing a format/clean install. I formatted a laptop of ours that had XP on it before, went to reinstall it with a full version disk/CD and It loads the initial drivers and such, I agree to the user agreement(F8) then it says there is no windows disk in my machine!? What the heck? It just read the CD to do the pre-install but now there's no disk there? lol This one has me stumped. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks