booting from cd-rom not working - bios set correctly

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i am trying to boot from my cd-rom, with no success. i changed the settings
in bios so that the cd-rom is the 1st boot option. the light for the drive
goes on, but the disk never spins. the cd-rom drive was working when i used
it from within windows. i tried this with a couple of disks - one being a
system restore disk which i am pretty positive would be a bootable disk.
what am i doing wrong/what am i missing? are there other bios setting that i
need to check? help please (and just fyi - i need to boot from the cd
because i mucked with an xp system file and cannot start windows at all)
thx - susan
 
Some drives I have noticed have difficulty booting, do you have a second
drive you could use?
 
To boot from CD Rom, some PCs require the CD ROM drive to be set as an IDE
master drive (usually on Secondary IDE channel.) If a CD ROM drive is set to
"slave' drive, this may be the case for your PC.
 
the cd rom drive is indeed a slave drive! I will try playing with this later
tonite and see if this addresses the issue - thanks!
 
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