Mother board cd

To boot from cd or pendrive, the device needs to be bootable. In otherwords to re install your Operating system, you will need an Operating System Disc.

Try different boot disc to format a drive

Hi there.

To format you will need:
Operating Systems (OS) CD/DVD

Steps:
1) Enter the BIOS when the laptop boots by pressing the Delete key repeatedly.
2) Once the BIOS is open locate the boot disk priority and set prioity 1 to the CD/DVD drive, set priority 2 to the laptop's hard drive.
3) Save changes to the BIOS and exit. The system should now reboot.
4) Insert your OS CD/DVD.
5) Press Enter when the system asks you if you want to boot from the CD/DVD.
6) The OS setup should now start, the first thing it will ask you to do is format your hard drive.
7) After you drive is formatted you can either continue with the setup and install a fresh copy of the OS or you can exit leaving the main drive clean.

~ Slasher_X

You cannot format the C drive or System drive with opened OS. But you will be able to format the drive on Boot, through A bootable CD/DVD or Any Other device!

Hello Charles:
The reason your PC is saying "hard disk not found is because it isn't seeing any hard drives in your system. If your using a CD or DVD to install your OS you need to go into your Bios and set your boot settings to boot from CD-Rom first, that way it will boot from the CD or DVD first and then it will hopefully see your hard drive and start installing once it has performed its system checks.
Hope this helps, if you need more assistance just holler back.
Sincerely, Peter N.

What is ur OS and board? Upon starting click on "del" to go to BiOS and go "BOOT" sequence, choose CD ROM as ur 1st boot sequence! Exit w/ save changes! Now ur ready to install a new Windows OS, insert a OS cd and re start ur desktop! upon starting "START CD ROM" click on "enter"! Let ur windows do everything and follow the instructions!
Taaa!

Hi
Yes, of all have you got the sony xp cd and its drivers cd?
You will need to go to the bios and change how the system boots, change it so that it boots for CD or dvd drive.
The the xp cd in the drive and reboot you system, once it boots it will boot from the cd or dvd drive. it will ask you to press any key to continue, thats it. Just follow the prompts!
Remember to back up you data!!

hi im josh in cebu phils.may i help you? Friend try to go to bios setup then first boot the optical disk or cd/dvd rom. reboot your pc then load XP cd.it will follow setup utiltiy then if done choose F8 to agree.then choose delete disk partition the drive you want to format.then create disk partition then enter setup will follow then wait and read the next tip. thats all good luck hope i helped you.

Your boot sector is corrupted you need to install windows again from a bootable windows cd...

You need to start from the hard drive, or from hard drive with CD support. You can change the boot device priority in BIOS /change it so that the optical drive is not first but the drive you installed the OS is/, or in some boards there's the option to choose boot device. In case of a Gigabyte mobo it would be F12, that would bring a device list and after choosing your hdd the install would continue.