Kubuntu error 17

[Kroesus]

I recently installed Kubuntu on my laptop that came with Windows Vista.
After installing Kubuntu i rebooted and it came up with the error 17 message. Then i thought "okay fine i dont really want windows vista so ill just format the whole mess and start from square one" I do have a windows XP cd which i tried to boot on but and it seemed to work fine when loading all the files but when it came to "setup is starting windows" it went into a blue screen and gave me this message: "a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down".

so now im a little bit stuck.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

I assume that you are planning to wipe your harddisk and install OSes from scratch. Boot up from Kubuntu CD and open Konsole.
Execute this

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=521 count=1

Reboot machine. dd command will wipe your harddisk and Windows Installation CD will work after that.
In case, Machine throws Error 17 again on reboot, replace hda with sda in dd command.