compaq presario 5000, model 5BW220, made 7/19/00. i installed a new hard drive on my computer because i think there's something wrong with the original. i have a new xp home oem installation cd that i want to install onto the new hard drive. the cd won't install xp home onto the drive. i only get a screen saying something like: "no operating system found, please press any key to try again". i think that i need to boot from the dvd drive that the xp home cd is in in order to install xp home onto the new hard drive, but when i go into bios the only two options to select to boot from are the A floppy drive and the C hard drive but no option for the dvd drive. how do i select to boot from the dvd drive if indeed that's what i need to do? also, if i am able to install xp home what are the next steps to take to get my computer running. my understanding of computers is pretty rudimentary. thanks for any replies. xxxxxxxxxx

is the cd/dvd drive recognized in bios? you may need to alter a setting to Auto-detect in order for the drive to appear. Once that is done it should then appear in your boot order options. Without it you cannot instal the operating system. The other things you might/will need are motherboard chipset drivers as well as drivers for any on-board or PCI devices such as Network Card, Graphics card, Sound card. These should be available for download from HP Compaq. As a matter of interest, what size and type of harddrive are you using? If your motherboard is not 48bit LBA compliand, AND the operating system instal disk at least SP1 you will have problems. If it is SATA rather than IDE you will also need SATA drivers for the motherboard saved on a floppy or CD. One of the early Setup screens asks you to press F6 if you need to instal 3rd party drivers. If you are using SATA drive this is what you must do. Goin' Fishin' (Some day)

While inside the case replacing the hard drive could you have disconnected the cdrom?

are the cd drive and hard drive on the same wide ribbon cable? if so, did you get the jumpers right? (on the end of drive where cables go there are some pins that have a 'jumper' on. that is a little plastic thing (with metal inside) which joins two pins together to tell the computer if it is a master or slave drive. If two drives are set the same on same cable it will not work right