Well i built my comp myself and had no probs booting from the cd when the option came up to hit any key to install. 2months later now I want to do reformat to perform some maintenence. I have the cd drive has the first boot devide but when the option comes up to boot from CD with any key it wont do anythin just runs through that option and then just boot up windows normally. Ive never had this rpb before and im wondering what i could be doing wrong. Ive installed xp gods know how many tiems before and this has never happened. btw i restored all the defaults and set back all the earlier options to default before it was oced. Thanks for help