I am trying to reformat the harddrive on my Acer laptop. and downgrade from vista to xp. and heres the problem?

Put windows xp cd in

restart the computer

press f2 for setup

tab over to boot menu

i have to change the order of drives by moving the cd/dvd drive so its first on the list so it will boot from cd..

press f10 for save and exit

computer restarts and gets to the “press any key to boot from disk”

so i pressed any key

and the words “setup is inspecting computers hardware configuration” flashed really fast

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windows setup appears

says setup is loading files
setup is starting windows

first thing before files start to load, it flashes at bottom

-press “f6″ if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver

-press “f2″ to run an Automated System Recovery

and then

at bottom of the screen u can see all kinds of drivers and controllers and etc. loading

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windows xp pro setup
welcome to setup

“this portion of the setup program prepares microsoft windows xp to run on your computer”
-to setup win xp now, press “enter”
-to repair win xp installation using recovery console, press “R”
-to quit setup without installing win xp, press “f3″

i pressed “enter”… and after the following error message i tried pressing “R” and got the same message

after pressing “enter” it says:

Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on your computer.
Make sure any hard disk drives are powered on and properly connected to your computer, and that any disk-related hardware
configuration is correct. This may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diagnostic or setup program.

Setup cannot continue. To quit setup, press “f3″

Then computer restarts

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