Having trouble booting from CD

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tskiller

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Hey. Im trying to help my friend reformat her Dell and reinstall windows onto it, but im having trouble booting from the CD drive. I select f12 to go to the boot menu, select the appropreate selection for the CD drive and hit enter. However, i then get an error stating something along these lines: The selected boot device is not ready. Press f1 to retry, or f2 to enter the setup menu. Retry does nothing but give me the error again. Its not even trying to boot from the xp install disk yet. Any ideas? This whole dell thing has got me going nuts. I think her dad did something...weird..when he installed another dvd-rw for her. (aka did the install wrong or broke something)
 
Does the drive work? Is everything plugged in correctly? Whatkind of computer is it? What drive?
 
Some kind of dell, e510. The drive seems to be working fine as far as windows is concerned, can read and burn correctly. I checked the wires, and they seem to be ok. Drive is generic DVD-Burner, whatever dells usually come with.
 
If its not the only cd or dvd drive in there that may cause an issue. It may not be the master.
 
Well, i thought about that too, so i unplugged the other one and made sure the first one's jumpers were set to master aswell. :confused:
 
If you can, go into the CMOS and change the first boot device to the CD/DVD drive.
 
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