Hey, i recently bought a abit an7 motherboard, i set it all up and went to boot my hard drive but when i put the xp disc in nothing happens and it just says operating system couldnt be found and dosent start the installiation? Thanks in advance

Is the hard drive showing up in the bios, did you set the bios options to auto detct the drive?

and to follow on, if your bios is detecting your hard-drive and cd-r and the relevant settings are in place, make sure that your boot sequence places your cd-drive before your hard-drive.

Thanks i had to change the bios