laptop wont boot

[tengue]

new laptop - to me - wont boot, recieve error when trying to boot from cd or floppy...

non-system disk or disk error - replace and strike any key when ready

hard drive is empty, how do i proceed?

[Tweaker]

Hello tengue, welcome to the community!

See if this (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812492) doesn't help.