No boot sector on hard drive

Hard to buy a new car trying to download windows xp and it came with. No boot sector on hard drive.

If it's a new hard drive, it will have to be formatted before it can be used.
Insofar as of the start of the LiveCD I guess 1) you have created the CD help to burn ISO to CD option and 2) that you have selected the option to boot in the BIOS (or the other make the first CD start or start at least temporary) to boot from the CD.

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