A disc read error occurred

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My anti-virus subscription ran out. I had been going to change the program (Panda) anyway because they've stopped catering for W2K. I went for Sophos. I uninstalled Panda then - stupidly forgetting I hadn't immediately rebooted - I installed Sophos. A restart produced:

Verifying DMI Pool Data
Boot from CD:
Boot from CD:

A disc read error occurred
Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

That's as far as it will go.I don't even have access to my second W2K emergency installation on HD5.
Any ideas, anyone?
Thanks


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