Remove linux and install XP from a boot CD

Hi, I am trying to move from Linux to Win XP back. Yet my boot CD
starts but goes blank.

There is no CD read activity but my Hard disk activity LED is ON.

What woud be the best way forward? Please advise.

Thanks,
Mani

 

It should be as simple as setting your bios to boot first from cd...
then boot up, format the drive from the context of the XP install

 

Thanks,

My BIOS is setup to boot from CD and it boots;

It says Press any key to boot from CD - When pressed i get a message
scanning computer....

Screen goes blank after that.. I hope there's no problem with picking
up the boot device.

Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance...

 

Importantly I have linux loaded on my comp.. I would like to move from
Linux back tp Win XP...

 

Yes...if you can get the XP installation started it will have no trouble
deleteing the Linux partitions
however it's bombing out somewhere...
I guess I'd make sure the cd is clean...
possibly try another cdrom in the machine

 

my linux dvd boots up with no issues, and proceeds with the
installation screens... I just tried it..

 

well then have a good look at your XP cd...

dusty, scratched???


if your Linux DVD boots up ok...the XP cd should boot too

 

Try booting up with the Linux CD and specifying a Fresh Install. Wait
until the formatting of the drive has finished, then yank the Linux CD and
insert Microsoft.

 

Check the Windows CD; eg, can you see anything on it from a 'file
manager'when you insert the disc while an operating system is running?
Does it boot on any other machine?

Is the disc concerned the one provided with that machine when the machine
was new, or is it one supplied with some other machine? Is it the first
CD in a boxed set bought over the counter from a reputable supplier?

Before you installed Linux on that machine, did you 'format' or 'delete'
all the Windows and OEM files including the 'compressed' files which the
OEM Windows CD needs to get to to repair or reinstall the Windows system?