I cannot get Vista to boot from CD in BIOS

Does anyone have a resolution to this problem:
When accessing BIOS (F12 on boot-up on my computer), I selected CD-RW as #1 in BIOS. After saving and exiting, my computer doesn't see a bootable disc in the drive, and goes to internal HDD. I am trying to wipe my hard drive with DBAN, that is
the disc that I have in the drive on boot-up.
I have also deselected all other drives (using the space bar in BIOS set-up) and that still doesn't work.
HELP!!

Does it detect the drive when you are within Windows?
What is the optical CD/DVD drive, SATA or IDE? If it is SATA optical drive, you may need to configure settings in BIOS to let AHCI chipset use PATA emulation mode.
SATA optical drives are not available after you start a Windows Vista-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928253
S.Sengupta, Windows Experience MVP

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