Erased HD - Installing windows

[gale]

Have a 40 Gig hard drive give to me that has had O's written to the HD.....completely erased. What do I need to do to install Windows XP? Have a CD which will boot (normally) on installion but not now. Any help. Thanks.

 

[smore9648]

Is this CD a recovery cd,upgrade or full version?

 

[gale]

The CD is a full version of XP. I have 98 boot floppy that the drive will not recognize.