Hello i am trying to install a new program (finalscratch) on my pc and i need to boot from the installation cd , it does not do so , i also tried with a win 2000 disc , and it did not read it either ,both of my cd drives work fine , i already checked the cables , i made sure which is my master cd rom and i even went into bios checked it out and everything was ok, i also tried to do a "one time boot from cd" and it didn't work , Help!

Go to My Computer and with CD in drive double click the drive.........this should show you the contents of CD and find the 'setup.exe' and double click it to install program ... JIM

i tried to do so , but it doesn't show up , the thing about this program is that it doesn't run on windows , thats why you have to boot from the cd and install it with out getting into windows , any more suggestions?

Hi Ardoban: Your CD cable, where on the motherboard is it connected? Hopefully it is the IDE-2 and not the same one with the hard drive. It will still work, but they always suggest you do not slave it with the hard drive. So, is it it's own master on the second connector? Does it appear under Device Manager?

get the custom windows xp install disk image from bootdisk.com after downloading it, have a formatted floppy in your a: drive and double click the file. then restart with it in your floppy drive, it will load your cd-roms as r: and s: change to whichever you have the cd in and run the install from there.

Be sure you go into your bios and reset your boot sequence from A, C, ... to CDROM, c CDROM MUST be set as First, in your boot sequence (then change it back to A, C or you wont be able to boot from a floopy