Unable to boot from cd

[rocker07]

I have windows 7 ultimate edition on my PC. I want to downgrade to windows xp service pack 3 but when i go to boot menu and try to boot from CD , the blank screen appears and it forward to windows start up(actually pc start). I am unable to install xp. please help.

 

[richnrockville]

I have windows 7 ultimate edition on my PC. I want to downgrade to windows xp service pack 3 but when i go to boot menu and try to boot from CD , the blank screen appears and it forward to windows start up(actually pc start). I am unable to install xp. please help.

Welcome rockere07 to the windows 7 forums.

Are you sure that your windows xp cdrom is a bootable cdrom?

Also, did you press the space bar when trying to boot from the cdrom?
you need to perform an action before the cdrom will boot your xp disk.

Rich