So let me start by saying that I have done this a few other times without a
hitch.

The computer I am upgrading had nothing on it other thant the Win. 98 os. My
friend asked me to help upgrade to XP.

I boot off of the XP Pro disc. It takes me through the usual prompts. I
delete the partition (i think this is where i went wrong).

It then asks if I want to delete everything on the HD and I select yes. It
started to go through the upgrade process.........

Here is where the problem comes.........Installation CD cannot be detected.
Try again or exit set up....save the XP intallation file on your hard drive
and load from there.......

When I reboot there is no OS to save installation files to...any thoughts