I installed XP Pro on my desktop pc. I used the CD that came with my dell laptop because I couldn't get the old CD I have for my pc to work with my SATA drives. The Dell CD installed fine... but now ...

When your Dell computer boots up, it references a list of bootable devices contained in the computer's BIOS. The computer will start at the top of the list and check the device for bootable ...

I have an old laptop with a busted CD drive but it seems to boot to the HDD (I put an old Windows drive in the slot and it sees Windows there but crashes during boot). I don't have an option to boot ...