computer will not boot without windows disc in cd player?

Would take too long to figure out why so

here's what to do...

You could try going into recovery mode booting off the xp disk and doing a fdisk/mbr on the command prompt.

OR

1>In BIOS, make sure your boot order is (1) CD rom drive (2) the hard drive you will boot off.

2>boot off xp install cd and most important, delete all (if possible) partitions otherwise at lease the boot partition and re create it then quick format for NTFS

3>Continue with the installation of XP till it ends.

Boot with cdrom first like you are going to do an install.

Let windows load the setup files to memory.

Press F10 to bring up Recovery Console

It may ask which install you want to log into chose C:

then type fixboot and hit enter

C:\ FIXBOOT <enter>

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