Cannot install on older laptop

I am trying to install arch on my older laptop but I keep getting an error when I boot the arch disk and it says
Buffer I/O error, dev sr0
I was able to install the system once but I got messages that said that the hard-disk is read only.
The laptop is an HP with a Duron (900mhz) processor with 1028 ram.

So I have to put windows on the laptop and then try to install Arch? I will see if I can do the same from linux..
I was thinking though... after a bit of searching for the type of error that I am getting:
I/O error, /dev/fd0
I/O error, /dev/sr0
(the first error is for a floppy and the second is for the cdrom) that other people are getting them in Arch but apparently I am the only one to be getting them when the live disk is first booted because everyone else seems to already have a working system when it happens to them. The other thing is that the same error happens on any of the three systems that I have tried it on here except for VirtualBox. It also happens whether I try to install from a cd or from usb. Debian and Ubuntu install just fine on these systems also, so I am thinking that it is either an Arch problem or some boot parameter that is automatic in those other distros. but is manual in Arch. What do you folks think?

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