Sorry I haven't been able to reply to your posts. Let me try to explain the problem better... I didn't do it very well the first time:

I can boot from a bootable CDs, but not read/explore it in Windows. It have tried many different CDs and none of them work. These are not burned CDs. So I don't think it's a IDE, speed, or anything like that, but I don't know.

I might need to clean it... I'll try that.

Anymore suggestions?