Reinstalling Windows XP on replacement hard disk

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My existing 200 Gb hard disk (running Windows XP home edition SP2) is old,
running slowly and will not de-fragment so I have installed a second, 320GB
hard disk alongside it on a Dell Dimension 4600. I have partitioned the new
disk (30 GB - and 290 GB), given it the drive letter 'F' and made it the
Primary Master (the old disk is the Primary Slave). Now I wish to install
Windows XP home on the new disk and cannot find a way of doing this. Can
anyone advise me please? This is what I have done

1) Tried to boot using the Dell Operating System disk (Windows XP home with
SP1) supplied with the desktop - but it wont load. The CD light indicates
information is being read from the disk for a short while - then nothing
happens

2) Disconnected the old 200 GB disk and tried again with the operating
system disk - same problem

3) Tried to boot off the A drive using a set of floppy disks created from
the Windows XP home edition SP1 boot disk creator (dowloaded from
Miscrosoft's website). Disks 1 and 2 load - then the process sticks during
disk 3 - giving me this error message: Could not load setupreg.hiv - error
4099

4) Tried disconnecting the old hard disk and booting of the floppy disk set
as desribed in 3 above. Same problem - only the error message on disk 3 reads
like this: could not load halaacp1.dll - error 7.

Now I've run out of ideas. Can anyone help? Thanks!
 
1) Tried to boot using the Dell Operating System disk (Windows XP home with
SP1) supplied with the desktop - but it wont load. The CD light indicates
information is being read from the disk for a short while - then nothing
happens
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Something is obviously broken. What could it be?

1. The CD. Ask the manufacturer for a replacement.

2. The CD drive. Have it repaired.

3. Something else. The CD drive data cable, the CD controller on
the motherboard, anything.

3 is kind of unlikely, so I would test the CD in another
computer first and try whether I can read from it.

Hans-Georg
 
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