Alternative ways of booting windows CD

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Windows has totally gone ***s up on a toshiba laptop..

I need to reinstall XP but the thing will not boot from CD.
It says "no bootable in atapi".
I got my hands on a replacement DVD drive and still nothing.
Tried a USB dvd drive and still nothing.
I tried my vista disk and tried 2 different linux boot CD's and none of them would boot.

any ideas
 
i had a similar problem with Vista disk not working... so i installed XP, then installed vista lol..

You've tried different disks, and drives so id say its something with the motherboard...

Can you get into bios?
Why exactly doesnt it boot the CD... I had a problem where it said press any key to boot from CD, but the keys were unresponsive so i had to go into bios and change the keyboard control from OS to BIOS..
 
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