Way to force BIOS to load boot disk?

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Mike85Rob

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I have an older Gateway laptop (circa 2006) and it is a dead duck as far as the OS goes. I have a boot disk which I used without issue a few years ago. The problem is it will not recognize the disk and give me a "press any key to load disk" option. Now that being said, I can load another disk I have on startup (its just a repair disk which is not helping me out) and I have checked the boot disk on another computer to make sure that everything is okay. So my question is why is this not being loaded upon startup? And I have tweeked everything in BIOS so that it should boot from disk. I saw in another thread someone said something about changing the cdrom to master, but I have no idea how to do that on a laptop. Any help is appreciated.
 
could that be the case if it will load another disk? the recovery disk will load it just won't do what I need it to do. Its just this one disk that will not load, and I found this disk to be working on another computer so I don't think its the disk or the disk drive.
 
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