Replying to Bought a laptop 2 days ago. Today it is useless.

It had windows xp home that my friend used but I had my copies of media center so i decided to get rid of his crap and put on the same os that i'm used to and then WHOOPS, an error during the reformatting and installation process and it shuts down. I went into the bios to change the boot order to select the cd-rom to start installation of windows again but it doesn't work. I hate computer problems so bad. I'm usualyl good at fixing em but what the hell do i do here.