Virtual PC 7 w/ Windows XP Home Installation CD 2

Question

I have a copy of Virtual PC 7 w/ Windows XP Home on CD, and installing
it on a iMac G5 1.6 Ghz w/ Combo Drive doesn't work because my computer
cannot read CD 2. I've tried several iMac G5s running at 1.6 Ghz at my
workplace and find that CD 2 just spins and spins and eventually the
computer just spits it out. It has no problem reading CD 1 though. It doesn't matter if it's running 10.3 or 10.4
iMac G5s running at 2.0 Ghz and iSight G5s read the discs just fine, as
do older G4 iMacs. But the one particular model that this program needs to
go on does not work. Any ideas on what to try?

Answer 1

Thanks for your possible fix, Harshboy. Unfortunately, my computer will not even read this disk. Before I open VPC, I insert the disk, it grinds for 30sec, and then spits the disk out.
I am beginning to think I may have a corrupted Win XP Pro install disk, or there is something I don't know about Windows install disks being read by Mac OSX.
I have tried the disk in a G4 Powerbook 15" 1.33Ghz 768 MB RAM machine, and it loads the disk, but the installer does NOT come up--it doesn't see that the disk is a system install disk, and it has a strange name of seemingly random letters. Most of the files are accessible, but SOME FILES ARE NOT, and when I try to copy those, it says they are unable to be read and thus unable to be copied. I have tried making a copy of all the readable files on the disk and copying them to an external firewire drive, and then trying to use that to install the system on my 12" G4 Powerbook, but it doesn't recognize any of the files as a system.
I have also burned a CD with the readable files from this disk, but VPC does not recognize the fact that there is a system on that disk, even when I try to open the "setup.exe" file manually, etc. When I do that, VPC opens/comes to the front, but still waits and asks for an OS to be installed.
The fact that the WinXP install disk does not come up as a system install disk on either PB makes me think that this disk is flawed. It's a stand-alone educational departmental license version (I am in education, it's legal), so I will attempt to take it back and have them verify whether or not it's a working disk.
Does anyone know any tricks about loading Windows install disks in Mac OSX? Is there anything I should know, and trick to make the drive read something it doesn't want to? (My 12" has a Superdrive).
Thanks-- Jeremy