Fried or Uninstalled Cd drive while installing debian
 

Hello
Im a linux newbie and i had a hankering to install linux on my xp system to see what it was like so i decided to go with debian. So i burnt debian to a cd and put it into my cd drive. Now i went through the initial set-up screens and then i was in the process of scanning my cd drive and i just left it there and about 30 minutes later the scanning process was still at 75% so i decided that the installation was stuck and therefore hard booted my computer. now when i turned my computer on again, the computer said primary drive to boot from failed or something along those lines so it told me to push f1 to continue i did and it booted my os fine. (i believe it said this due to the fact that i had the bios set to boot from cd drive first) so my question is what did i do and how do i fix this? My pc is a dell dimension 3000.

Thanks for any help or suggestions.
ak47basketball

You probably just need to try another cd. Sounds like either the burn didn't go well or the iso is corrupt.

thats what i would assume too but i believe its more than just that since now windows wont recognize the cd drive. so what should i do now?

Do you have another cdrom drive?

nope this is the only one i have