Installing WINXP, in WINXP?

[rockhoward]

I got a new harddrive and I want to use it as the main drive (250gig). I don't want to clone/copy everything because there is alot of junk I don't want on my old drive(200gig). I tried booting from the WINXP CD, Letting it format the 250gig drive, and then installing windows, I got tons of errors about how it can't find this and that on the CD. I wan't to try and install WINXP onto the new 250gig drive while booted up in winxp from the old 200gig drive.

Using win XP home ed.

[EzyStvy]

I would unplug the boot drive and make the new one Master. Then start the install.

[rockhoward]

Well I have tried that, the problem is there is an error when starting from CDBOOT. So I really need a way to install from windows so I can point to the file or something

[Panama Red]

Don't know if it will help but here's an idea. Install both drives using Cable Select (I'm assuming both are PATA and not SATA) with the old drive in the Master position on the cable. Once you boot up, go into Disk Management and format the new hard drive in NTFS. This will clear out that drive. Then do as EzyStvy has suggested (and as you already tried) boot from XP cd with only the new drive installed. No need to format this time. Just do the fresh install. If the install fails again, run the drive manufacturer's diagnostics software and make sure that new drive doesn't have a problems.

[rockhoward]

I have formatted it several times trying to install this. I keep getting this error when starting the windows install process

F:\I386\ASMS\1000\MSFT\WINDOWS\GDIPLUS\GDIPLUS.MAN, error on line 4

Now the weird thing is my CDDRIVE is Drive D:\ I thought. So I am like... totally lost, and apparently it's saying this reguardless of having the CD in the PC >.<

[rockhoward]

I ended up solving this by using a difrent CD-DRIVE. It just wasn't able to read the CD well enough I suppose, though it seemed like my CD BIOS might of been bad as well.