How to know if hdd is bad, or disk! Heres my experiances!

yes hello everyone.


i recently purchased a new desktop, well new system to be exact its all up to date top of line for my wallet wise. put everything together myself


anyways!!! I live in germany, i had a copy of winxp pro in German on my system.!!! its hard to find a copy of xp pro here in english, so my uncle let me connect to his ftp, and download a copy of xp, downloaded it. unzipped it. ripped it to a cd. Now i stick it in my laptop and or any other computer boots right to cd!. would you like to download windows xp pro.
°so for that saying that does that make it a bootable cd?

okay so me thinking that i went ahead and used a prog from the internet called ACTIVE@killdisk burnt the iso image to a disk and formatted my hdd.

now when i go and put the cd in it wont boot at all. made a floppy disk with win98 essentials boot up disk. with format.exe all that good stuff. can access my drive, through the I386 folder. and when i try and run the winnt.exe file it says something along the lines of cannot run file, or invalid file. or something like that! which makes me think that theres a problem with my registry.


ANy help would be usefull i know i probably didnt provide much but any questions with troubleshooting or insight would be great.




David