Gateway LT2016U installing Win XP Home

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Dustin_Broke

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I got a used Gateway LT2016U netbook and it had Ubuntu installed and because of that the recovery software and the OEM OS is gone so I need to use my Windows XP Home CD that I have but the problem is that when I boot up the computer and run the CD it loads the setup files but at the end where it's suppose to show something like press enter to install XP that screen doesn't show and shows a blue screen. I think that the hard drive needs a raid but I don't have one. How can I install XP on this system using a CD? I can't find raid software so I can use it to install XP.
 
I did reinstall Win XP Home SP3 again and I will see if it will be slow again but I wonder if there is a way I can test the HDD I assume that there are softwares for Windows that will work and that are free. But it has to work for XP since it's not Win Vista, 7 or 8.