aceit2400xp

well made a disc with everything i want on it and it worked as a upgrade to my o.s but will not boot it says cannot boot from cd error code 5

hi i am new to the forum and just decided to have a go at XPCREATE but im having problems with it i started it at 10.15 this morning and it is now 13.05 gmt it has been merging the hotfixes since 11.53 and it has not gone any further could anyone tell me how long it takes normaly i have also inc software in the FILESCD folder to be installed at the same time as xp every thing is going smoothly apart from this merging hotfixes plz help