CD ROM Not detected by computer/BIOS

I actually tried that and that doesn't work either because My whole Computer and BIOS doesn't see the drives, which is why I wasn't thinking it was a OS issue in the beginning.

Originally Posted by Mark

Option 2:

Go into your bios setup, and go to IDE config or something like that, depends on your BIOS, and check that the drives aren't turned on, look for primary master/slave, secondary master/slave something like that, and check that they're set to AUTO.

Hey, I just had an idea... could I put the stuff from the boot disks onto a Flash Drive instead? My computer will boot to a flash drive.

Originally Posted by Brad729

Yeah that's a six-disk set, I had to go buy a box when I fixed my friend's computer.

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Did you end up getting this fixed? How large of flashdrive do you have?
You could technically put the whole windows xp cd on a flashdrive (legally too) and boot from that.
But, before doing that, I am not sure if you said it, but have you reset your cmos by pulling the cmos battery and seeing if that had any effect?
There is a good chance you cd drive is toast also, have you tried using another, or trying yours on a different computer?

Also try moving the cdrom to a different ide channel, basically another cable, and see if you find any result.

WOW! My brother was trying to fix it and he did a bunch of stuff, he finally did something in the BIOS and fixed it! YAY! Now I have a laptop and a desktop even though I only really bought the laptop for the CD Drive hehe... I'm reinstalling Windows for the heck of it anyway!