S Stan Brown Jan 9, 2006 #2 Sun, 8 Jan 2006 12:01:02 -0800 from Bodyguard Hi! Could my CD-Rom be bad if Computer does not pick it up at start-up? Click to expand... Could be, but perhaps you need to set your BIOS to boot from CD-ROM (assuming by "pick it up" you mean "boot from"). An easy test is to see whether the hardware or the disk is bad is to try reading it once Windows is running.
Sun, 8 Jan 2006 12:01:02 -0800 from Bodyguard Hi! Could my CD-Rom be bad if Computer does not pick it up at start-up? Click to expand... Could be, but perhaps you need to set your BIOS to boot from CD-ROM (assuming by "pick it up" you mean "boot from"). An easy test is to see whether the hardware or the disk is bad is to try reading it once Windows is running.
