Satellite Pro 2100: Booting from a CD-R not working

Hi,
At our company we use the BartPE boot disc to get onto the company network from which we can then use Norton Ghost to image our PCs and laptops. This works really well. However, I've got a Toshiba Satellite Pro 2100 which is refusing to read any boot CDs. It'll TRY to read the discs but simply fails.
I can hear it trying over and over again but it's just not working. I've tried writing using different media and different CD writers, even going down to writing at 8x speed, but nothing helps. Is there a known issue with reading CD-Rs on this range or model?
Tim.

Hi
To boot from the CD you can press the C button immediately after notebook starting.
Furthermore it would be very interesting to know if it's also not possible to boot from the Toshiba recovery CD.

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