Ultimate Boot CD

Well I'm trying something on the xp pro cd thats for my desk top. I went to the Recovery Console and created a partition by typing: diskpart

Then reboot with the xp cd and now it got my further into the setup and is reformatting. I will keep you posted keeping fingers crossed.

Yes I have two xp cd's. I have that came with my dell with sp2, and xp pro that I bought for my pc. If I put in the xp pro from my desktop it starts the install process and then says: File \i386\ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. The error code is 7 Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit. If I ...

I tried that and it starts loading the windows setup and then gives me this error.

File \i386\ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded.
The error code is 7

Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.

Any ideas?

Also this is a Dell Inspiron 9200 laptop.

I used a one of the wipe programs on the boot cd to wipe a hd. Can someone tell me the process on how to get new boot sectors so I can reinstall xp on this hd. The hd is a toshiba laptop hard drive in a dell laptop.

Thanks