Trying to reinstall Windows

[Greenlizard0]

I am trying to reinstall windows.

I put my windows CD in and reboot (after changing the boot order to CD-ROM), and I seem to keep getting the "Invalid system disk - etc" error message. I don't know why this is.

The last time I was able to reformat and install windows normally it was with my PATA drives, now my optical drives are both Samsung SATA ones. <-Is this the reason why i'm unable to use them to boot up and therefore install windows?

 

[Greenlizard0]

Sorry for not answering your questions and updating;

I changed the CD to a different bay, and it worked, for some reason at boot time only one is responsive, I'm not sure why this is. But I have reinstalled windows fine and it's working lovely (ish), see my other threads for my USB problems etc...