Unable to install win xp

[Arpan]

see i had done clean installation around 17-18 of this month. After that only laptop's infected data was copied to desktop. I dont think any other malicious data was copied or anyhow entered desktop.

New windows was installed through this new drive itself. But that time also this new drive was not giving the option "press any key to boot form cd" even after setting the cd/dvd as the first boot device. fter trying multiple[20-30] time different order, somehow this option came up ans i could manage to install windows. But after that it has never given me this option.

[Arpan]

What boot sequebce i should try generally??

[guestolo]

is the new drive set as Master, just like the Old one?

I'm not sure what you mean by the following

and even end side of cable is attached to it

Is that an IDE connection?

What is your boot sequence in the bios?

Can you try booting with Ubuntu or Knoppix, see if you can boot from the drive

[Arpan]

It is an IDE connection.

I just tried connecting both old and new DVD drives together and to my strange it worked. Machine started giving me the option of
press any key to boot from cd. Can you understand the reason behind this sudden change?

new- secondary master
old - secondary slave.

Do you still need answer to other questions of the previous post?

[guestolo]

Go ahead and clean install the machine, I'm sure you have done that now, but just checking

I'm a bit confused

new- secondary master
old - secondary slave

Your Old player was set Secondary slave before you removed it?
Did you have anything else connected to that IDE chain before removing it?