X205-Sli1 won't boot from recovery cds or bootable disk, even though dvd recognized in bios

I've searched the forum, but haven't found any answers as to why I can see my cd/dvd rom in bios as the first bootable media on the list, but F12 won't list it as a device I can boot to. The bios version is the latest (2.5). The cd/dvd works just fine in windows safe mode. I can run "install.exe" to do a full recovery of the hd, but when the machine reboots, it doesn't boot from the cd. I've put other bootable cds/dvds in the drive and the machine just bypasses it.
Help! The hard drive is dying and many windows files are corrupt.
Even tried to boot from a usb toshiba floppy, and the machine wouldn't recognize the floppy under f12 menu, but sees it in bios.
Thanks,
Ratkity

color me lost... you state that you've done a restore to factory config but there are still corrupt windows files???
when you've done the complete recovery, have you elected to format and install fresh?
barring that, have you attempted to wipe the C drive to eliminate the possibility of an unwanted critter hiding out and reinfecting your machine during the reload process???
yes, this is possible... especially if some critter has the smarts to infect the hidden partition or one of the restoration checkpoints...
yes^2, there are critters out there with these types of smarts :?
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